Dhs500m approved for Sharjah sanitation network
SHARJAH: Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi approved an amount of Dhs500 million for the establishment of a sanitation network and an integrated sanitation network in the Muwailih area.
The department has combined efforts with its strategic partners to develop an integrated plan for drainage in the city of Sharjah to develop the sanitation sector and determine the priority of implementation sewage projects to establish an integrated sanitation system at a thoughful economic cost, in conjunction with the urban development and the expected population density in the city, aiming at preserving the environment, reducing the number of tanks, reducing carbon emissions, and preventing odors. The cost of implementing the project amounted to about half a billion dirhams, pointing out that this project will contribute to creating an atractive environment for investment and a place that encourages work and living.
The sewage system has been studied and designed to be an integrated and flexible system that keeps pace with the expected population development of the area, contributing in enhancing the development of the infrastructure and boosting the economic development in Sharjah.
Recently, in line with the visions and directives of Sheikh Sultan to increase the green area and encourage agriculture, the Sharjah Municipality launched an initiative to distribute agricultural seedlings as part of its participation in the 41st Afforestation Week, in order to strengthen its role in spreading the green patch and planting trees to emphasise its importance.
Thabet Al Tarifi, Director General of Sharjah Municipality, stressed that the municipality’s participation in the activities of the afforestation week reflects its tangible role and its keenness to enhance environmental awareness and encourage and pay atention to agriculture.
Al Tarifi pointed out that the municipality launched an initiative to distribute agricultural seedlings to citizens according to a set of preventive and precautionary measures, as it distributed them ater performing the necessary sterilisation operations before handing them over to citizens, with the commitment of employees to wear a face mask and gloves and adhere to social distancing.
Hassan Al Tifaq, Assistant Director General for the Agriculture and Environment Sector, explained that the Afforestation Week is an environmental occasion through which the municipality is keen to spread awareness in the environmental field and to preserve and increase trees and plants, and to achieve its goals, the municipality distributed more than 3,000 seedlings to citizens, which are propagated in the nurseries of Sharjah city gardens.