The UAE will build 68 dams over the next five years to meet increasing water demand, the UAE daily Khaleej Times reported an official as saying on Tuesday.
Mohammed Mustafa Al-Mulla, Deputy Minister of Water and Soil Affairs was reported as saying that the ministry was also preparing a new federal law draft to protect the country’s water resources in a bid to meet the future water demand.
Al-Mulla did not give a figure for how much would be spent on the new dams, the paper added. The UAE now has 140 dams.
He said that in future, industrial and agricultural sectors would be supplied with treated waste water rather than desalinated water as part of an improved waste water management policy.
“Currently we are working to build a better waste water management system. The major consumers of the UAE’s water resources are the agricultural and industrial sectors. Our aim is to use desalinated water only for domestic purpose,” he was quoted as saying.
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