Ajman enhances environmental sustainability by 87.5% in treated water

 The Emirate of Ajman continuously and actively contributes to achieving a healthy and sustainable environmental life in the Emirate in accordance with the state's strategy, most notably the UAE Water Security Standard 2036, in order to ensure the sustainability and continuity of the quality and abundance of water in the region and reduce the depletion of natural water resources as it works to treat wastewater in the Emirate and reuse it for agricultural purposes And multiplexes according to the highest standards of environmental control in purification processes and taking into account health standards.

In this regard, the wastewater treatment plant in the Emirate of Ajman has increased the amount of treated wastewater by 87.5 percent from 2021 at the level of the emirate, according to the latest results issued by the Ajman Statistics Center in 2021.

The results include the ratio of the actual water capacity to the design capacity for the year 2021 at the level of the emirate, which amounted to 87.5 percent, and the volume of treated water produced annually reached 41,761,721 cubic meters in the emirate of Ajman in 2021.

The results also showed that the amount of dry sludge produced for the year 2021 in the Emirate of Ajman amounted to 8,952 tons/year, and the annual change rate of the quantity of dry sludge produced in the Emirate of Ajman between the years 2019-2021 decreased by 4.1 percent from what increased in the annual growth rate of treated wastewater in The Emirate of Ajman in the period from 2019 to 2021 amounted to 5.6 percent.

The steady increase in the population and in economic and development activities constitutes a rise in the demand for fresh water resources, but at the same time it provides an increasing resource of wastewater that can be exploited in development and other fields. Therefore, the Ajman government has attached importance to the treatment and reuse of sewage water, and this was done by treating more than 50 percent of the sewage and the great attention to wastewater treatment, especially the rapid urban, demographic and economic progress that the emirate is witnessing. Therefore, it is an important aspect of preserving the environment and the health of society, and any liquid waste resulting from various human activities, whether domestic, commercial, institutional or industrial;

It is collected through a network of pipes and channels to reach a specific collection point to start the treatment process, and this point is called a water treatment plant, which contributes significantly to reducing environmental pollution caused by sewage water, and the consequent multiple diseases and epidemics..

During the continuous increase in wastewater treatment in the Emirate of Ajman, the Municipality and Planning Department in Ajman and the Ajman Sewerage Company "Privacy" are keen to set the highest safety standards for environmental monitoring in purification processes and observance of health standards in the event of water reuse or disposal in the environment. The reports that were published by the Ajman Statistics Center in the Emirate of the emirate, the amount of treated water, which amounted to 41,761,721 cubic meters in 2021, and the amount of treated wastewater discharged to Gulf waters amounted to 24,918,838 cubic meters, with a rate of about 59.7 percent of the total treated wastewater, while the proportion of wastewater The treatment discharged for irrigation was about 29.8 percent, which amounted to 12,427,593 cubic metres, and the percentage of wastewater discharged by other methods was about 10.6 percent of the total final wastewater discharge, which amounted to 4,415.290 cubic metres, while the amount of treated wastewater for the year 2020 amounted to 39,951,643 cubic metres, in which the final discharge to Gulf water constituted the highest percentage, amounting to 64.1 percent of the total amount of treated wastewater, while the amount of treated wastewater discharged for irrigation and discharged to other discharges 26.7 percent and 9.1 percent, respectively, and the annual growth rate in the period 2019-2021 for treated wastewater in the Emirate of Ajman was 5.6 percent.

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