Adding a new category to encourage research institutions and individuals to participate
The Mohammed bin Rashid International Water Prize is expanding in its third session
“Suqia Emirates” has a positive impact on the lives of millions of people around the world.
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The announcement of the Emirates Suqia Foundation to expand the scope of the third session of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Prize, and to add a new category, was praised by global and local bodies, and was widely acclaimed for its role in encouraging a greater number of research institutions and individuals to participate in the award launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, whose prizes total one million dollars, aims to find sustainable and innovative solutions to address the problem of water scarcity around the world.
UAE Suqia emphasized that the new technologies that work to produce, distribute, store, monitor, desalinate and purify water using renewable energy.
The role of the UAE as a catalyst for innovation, a destination for innovators and an incubator for innovators has been established, and the Innovative Solutions for New Crises Award keeps pace with the rapid changes taking place in the world.
UAE Suqia encourages small companies, research institutes and non-governmental organizations to create projects or systems that provide emergency aid by providing clean, safe and potable water to affected communities within 48 hours, while demonstrating the ability to assist a thousand people during the first critical stages of providing humanitarian aid. .
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler's Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, stated that expanding the scope of the Emirates Water Prize to include new areas confirms its success and its role in devising sustainable solutions to address the problem of global water scarcity, and positively affect the lives of millions Humans around the world.
His Highness affirmed that the initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, promote human and human development areas around the world, achieve the highest levels of sustainability in giving, and create appropriate solutions for many humanitarian issues that plague vulnerable communities.
His Highness added that the initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum embody the growing role of the UAE in meeting humanitarian needs and improving life in various countries, explaining that this qualitative initiative is not alien to His Highness, as he is constantly contemplating and thinking about the issues of the deprived and the marginalized without discrimination. And standing by them in the darkest circumstances, and adopting initiatives that enhance their ability to face their situations, as His Highness always strives to stimulate energy and enhance the aspect of social responsibility among individuals, bodies and institutions.
His Highness added that “(Watering the UAE) comes as an extension of the initiatives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to improve life and alleviate the suffering of those who face great challenges in obtaining safe water sources.
The initiative aims to mobilize support and support for the benefit of victims of drought and drought, and represents a strong message of solidarity with their conditions.
The initiative has triumphed since it was launched five years ago for basic human rights, the most important of which is the right to clean water.
The initiative promotes livelihood and stability opportunities in the regions and regions that have been abandoned by local residents due to the lack of the most important resource for human survival.
For his part, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, affirmed that the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award translates the state’s orientations in adopting the approach of benevolence and giving that has always characterized the UAE since its establishment at the hands of the founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, as the award works to encourage research institutions, individuals and innovators from all over the world to find sustainable and innovative solutions to address the problem of clean water scarcity, as it is the secret of life in the world.
Al Mazrouei added that the award plays a major role in supporting creative ideas, and the third round of the award differs from its predecessors, as a result of global changes, conditions and repercussions imposed by the Corona pandemic, so that the world after this virus is different from what it preceded, so it has become necessary to encourage research centers, individuals and innovators around the world to Finding sustainable solutions to various global dilemmas and problems, including the problem of drinking water scarcity, which is undoubtedly one of the major global problems.
He pointed out that the award plays an important role in bringing about positive and sustainable changes to the most serious global challenge represented by the scarcity of clean water suitable for human use, and to reduce its effects on poor countries that suffer from both problems due to water scarcity.
In turn, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Water Corporation, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, affirmed that expanding the scope of the award and launching a new category comes from the unlimited support of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the Foundation’s commitment to achieving His Highness’s vision of providing safe drinking water to the needy, distressed and deprived. Around the world regardless of religion, race, culture or nationality.
He added that the Innovative Crisis Solutions Award contributes directly to the advancement of the human condition wherever it is and the creation of positive change, and the new category of the award enhances the efforts of the wise leadership to transform humanitarian work into an integrated system of giving, combining efficiency, effectiveness and speed of implementation, and consolidating the position of the UAE on the map of the most countries. Giving and volunteering around the world.
Al Tayer stressed that the Foundation is cooperating with its strategic partners to move humanitarian work to new horizons, institutionalize humanitarian work and consolidate its added value in the face of current and future crises, so that the UAE remains a center for the manufacture of hope, goodness and giving.
He pointed out that the award also contributes to supporting the efforts of “Water Emirates”, which has succeeded since its establishment five years ago in positively affecting the lives of more than 13 million people in 36 countries so far, through the implementation of more than 1000 sustainable water projects around the world. In cooperation with its strategic partners, the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment, and Dubai Cares.
10 global risks
The Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Suhail bin Muhammad Al Mazrouei, stated that in 2016, the World Economic Forum included water crises among the top 10 global risks affecting the world, and in line with this, the sixth goal of the sustainable development goals focused on ensuring the availability of water and its sustainable management.
He added that the UAE was keen to adopt proactive ideas and initiatives to conserve water, and to search for future solutions that support this, and the state had earlier launched the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036, which aims mainly to develop a road map to achieve water security, which in turn aims to Enhancing levels of planning for water security and risk management.