Water resource and infrastructure management summit to be held in Dubai
IQPC, the global provider of tailored, knowledge-driven conferences, supported by the UAE's Ministry of Water & Environment and the Arab Water Council, bring together top regional and international water resource and infrastructure management experts for a summit to be held in Dubai this October. The agenda are national and international case studies aimed at successfully evaluating groundwater resources using GIS and geophysical techniques, along with the UAE's dam management projects, strategies to date and their success.
Dr. Mohamed A. Dawoud, Manager, Natural Resources Department, Environment Policy Sector, Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, said, "The results of this pilot impressively confirmed the suitability of the aquifer at the chosen location - a remote sand dune area around 150 km south west of Abu Dhabi City - as well as the functioning of the infiltration and abstraction designs used".
In the last three decades, rapid population growth and accelerated socio-economic development in the GCC countries have added to water demands that have escalated from less than 5 billion cubic meters in 1970 to about 26.778 billion cubic meters in 2005. Due to the deterioration of non-renewable aquifers, all GCC countries rely on the desalinated water as a main source for domestic water supply.
