The UAE’s global initiative for water management

  • Date: 15-Jan-2022
  • Source: Gulf Today
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:UAE
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The UAE’s global initiative for water management

Tens of thousands in Gaza will access drinking water generated through solar power. This is a project funded by United Arab Emirates Government. It will be implemented by Washington D.C.-based Rostropivich-Vishnevskaya Foundation. This will help 125 schools managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The UAE Government fund also provided Covid-19 vaccines in Gaza and West Bank. The Initiative was finalized on January 10. The UAE, through its Beyond 2020 initiative, is helping uplift the lives of 18, 000 villagers in The Philippines by increasing access to water and by reducing the cost of water by 85 per cent. Four hydraulic ram pumps and 13 kiosks are being activated to help the villagers in two provinces of the archipelago-country. This is achieved through an innovative technology created 240 years ago to bring water uphill without using electricity or fuel and without emission of harmful gases. The focus of these projects is on use of alternative and renewable sources of energy. This is part of the UAE’s outreach programme. The UAE has set upon a mission to solve its own water challenges through its Water Security Strategy 2036 with the