This report addresses the importance of implementing a comprehensive and sustainable desalination policy in Sharjah, UAE by the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA). Our goal is to create a policy brief that can aid SEWA in the implementation of a desalination policy. The data for the recommendations were collected through analyzing guidelines and policies from around the world, conducting expert interviews, and distributing surveys on various desalination themes. This information helped formulate a policy brief that recommends regulations on desalination technologies, desalination input management, and desalination output management. We hope that SEWA will consider our recommendations to further ensure the economic and environmental prosperity of Sharjah and the Arabian Gulf.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mankaryous, Robear
• Kean, Caitlin M.
• Kurdziel, Sophie
• Wofford, Sawyer Q.

Subject

• Innovation
• Infrastructure
• Environment
• Energy
• Sustainability
• Project-Based Learning
• Inclusion
• Well-Being
• Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 5396
• E-project-013121-150911

Parola chiave

• Sharjah
• wastewater
• policy
• UAE
• reverse osmosis
• desalination

Advisor

• Doiron, Joseph

Year

• 2021

Center

• United Arab Emirates (UAE) Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
• 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
• 13 - Climate Action
• 14 - Life Below Water
• 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Date created

• 2021-01-31

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright