The UAE Water Aid Foundation is showcasing its novel water desalination projects at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi.

The foundation’s participation at WFES supports its mission to provide potable water to the needy around the world, under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation.

At the ongoing summit, the foundation is highlighting its projects and initiatives at the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) stand.

"The UAE Water Aid Foundation is showing its projects in water desalination using clean energy to provide clean water solutions. It also highlights its leading humanitarian projects to provide access to fresh drinking water for five million people around the world," remarked Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, the managing director and chief executive of Dewa and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation.

The foundation also had on display a model of its mobile water desalination station that desalinates, as well as a sample of its solar-powered mobile station that uses photovoltaic solar panels to desalinate water by reverse osmosis (RO) technology, in cooperation with Dewa. 

It is also promoting its one-million-dollar award, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to find permanent solutions to water shortages around the world by using solar power for water purification and desalination, he added.

Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, the acting executive director of the UAE Water Aid Foundation, said it is also highlighting key projects and initiatives to provide clean water to the needy, its studies and research on producing water using solar power, and its contributions to financing and supporting water-technology projects to combat drought.

"It also is showing its research and development projects such as the solar panel powered PVRO (photovoltaic reverse osmosis) unit at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park with a production capacity of 50 cu m a day, and the ability to store power for seven hours. The project is being implemented in cooperation with Dewa," he added.-TradeArabia News Service