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"And if you were on a running river"

Faisal Muhammad Al-Shamri

December 26, 2020

One of the merits of misfortunes and challenges is that they show minerals, and show reality without embellishment or exaggeration, and rationalization in spending or in consumption requires community awareness, and constitutes a cognitive challenge and behavioral change, especially if it is associated with what some see as an inherited generosity or a wrong culture. (Water, food, and a face).

While the divine message indicated in the noble verse: “Eat and drink and do not overdo it, he does not like extravagant things.” Likewise, the noble Prophet’s guidance: “Do not go to waste, even if you are on a running river,” it urges rationalization and awareness of the importance of optimal use.

The lack of water, water and food security is a complex file and a global challenge, and the assignment of two ministers in the government of the United Arab Emirates with them, is an indication of the leadership's interest in these challenges and the search for effective, radical solutions to them, but this should not stop us from the institutional and societal contribution in the treatment and solution of these challenges.

The institutional role is not limited to setting controls and requirements, but extends to building an integrated system that raises the community’s contributions and role.

For example, rationalizing water consumption, recycling and discussing the possibility of self-treating gray water in homes and facilities, and limiting disposal to only public water (sewage ... may God bless you), by designing two parallel networks of sanitation, something that may raise the cost in principle, but its rationalizing effect is enormous, for example. How many of us keep pine water flowing in the winter until the warm water comes out, and how much of the kitchen sinks water flows continuously while washing vegetables, fruits, dishes, or even when performing ablution?

Education has a major role in posing the challenges of wastefulness in an area where underground water is scarce, where there are no rivers, and depends mainly on desalination of sea water, especially since the Arabian Gulf suffers from accumulated pollution and oil spots, and (drying) the sources of rivers that used to flow into it from neighboring countries I do not think, but I am certain that it intends to cause an intentional environmental disaster that will only harm the Arabs of the Gulf.

We hope to see more local plants cultivation around mosques and the circulation of ablution water and laundries to irrigate small oases next to the Rahman homes, as well as at the oases of fuel filling that have spread, and have redefined the culture and fueling services, with the importance of using them to define the size of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint and rationalize water consumption.

We also look forward to reconsidering the municipal authorities concerned with urban planning with the standards and designs of water drainage, to enable water recycling without resorting to pumping reusable water in irrigation of home gardens or even the outskirts of residential neighborhoods with sewage, thus reducing treatment operations and its high cost.

The institutional efforts to host international events and awards devoted to addressing humanitarian challenges, as well as an international center for saline agriculture research, indicate proactive national efforts, but .. "God does not change the condition of a people until they change what they themselves are." Therefore, everyone must participate in the nation's efforts to rationalize consumption. Water, and awareness of the importance of preserving every precious water drop.

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Water shortage, water and food security is a complex file and a global challenge.