RIYADH: Water conservation and efforts to find integrative and comprehensive solutions for water resource problems will top the agenda of the 7th International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments (ICWRAE) to be opened here on Sunday under the patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.
ICWRAE 2016, to be jointly organized by the Ministry of Water, Environment and Agriculture, King Saud University (KSU), Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) and the Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Foundation aims to exchange knowledge and share information in water resources and desert-related fields, explore use of new technologies in the study of arid and semi-arid environments and their natural resources, and to provide an opportunity for decision-makers, experts and scientists to share their expertise in order to find integrative and comprehensive solutions for water resource problems. The biennial conference, to be hosted by KSU, will discuss a number of topics dwelling at length on the water resource depletion that leads to the scarcity of clean, safe drinking water for increasing numbers of people.
“Water is our life’s most precious resource. Our need for it is increasing exponentially, along with the human population. If we are to guarantee that there will be enough water for future generations, we must engage in a concerted global effort to make water available, to ensure its sustainability and to protect it from contamination,” said Abdulmalek A. Al-Shaikh, chairman of the ICWRAE steering committee.
This is why every two years, ICWRAE brings together a distinguished body of scholars and experts from around the world to share water-related research in a spirit of benevolence and with a global vision, he added.
“We need to work together in trust and with a sense of shared responsibility. Our efforts must remain above the narrow concerns of geography, politics, or economic interests, because human life, wherever it is found, is truly the most precious thing, and water is the most precious component of human life,” said Al-Shaikh, who is also the director of the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert at KSU, and the general secretary of the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
He said that the event will work out a scientific framework for awarding the PSIPW, and for announcing topics of research for the next prize.
Established in 2002, the PSIPW aims to give recognition to the efforts that scientists, inventors and organizations are making in water-related fields and to acknowledge exceptional and innovative scientific work which contributes to the sustainable availability of potable water, and the alleviation of water scarcity throughout the world.
ICWRAE 2016, to be jointly organized by the Ministry of Water, Environment and Agriculture, King Saud University (KSU), Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) and the Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Foundation aims to exchange knowledge and share information in water resources and desert-related fields, explore use of new technologies in the study of arid and semi-arid environments and their natural resources, and to provide an opportunity for decision-makers, experts and scientists to share their expertise in order to find integrative and comprehensive solutions for water resource problems. The biennial conference, to be hosted by KSU, will discuss a number of topics dwelling at length on the water resource depletion that leads to the scarcity of clean, safe drinking water for increasing numbers of people.
“Water is our life’s most precious resource. Our need for it is increasing exponentially, along with the human population. If we are to guarantee that there will be enough water for future generations, we must engage in a concerted global effort to make water available, to ensure its sustainability and to protect it from contamination,” said Abdulmalek A. Al-Shaikh, chairman of the ICWRAE steering committee.
This is why every two years, ICWRAE brings together a distinguished body of scholars and experts from around the world to share water-related research in a spirit of benevolence and with a global vision, he added.
“We need to work together in trust and with a sense of shared responsibility. Our efforts must remain above the narrow concerns of geography, politics, or economic interests, because human life, wherever it is found, is truly the most precious thing, and water is the most precious component of human life,” said Al-Shaikh, who is also the director of the Prince Sultan Research Center for Environment, Water and Desert at KSU, and the general secretary of the Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
He said that the event will work out a scientific framework for awarding the PSIPW, and for announcing topics of research for the next prize.
Established in 2002, the PSIPW aims to give recognition to the efforts that scientists, inventors and organizations are making in water-related fields and to acknowledge exceptional and innovative scientific work which contributes to the sustainable availability of potable water, and the alleviation of water scarcity throughout the world.
