Sustainable Solutions for Water Consumption Associated to a Case Study in Abu Dhabi University

Through our life experience in ADU- Abu Dhabi University, we found out there is a sufficient amount of wasted water can be saved and used in other purposes. From this observation, we would like to investigate deeply about this issue, and come up with solutions that would save the water not only for now but also for the next generation. We will make ADU take another step toward being Green University.

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     We want in this research to optimize the water through correcting our daily usage and disposing methods of water in where we spend our most time through the day which is our university, Abu Dhabi University, to become the case study of our research. By doing so, we will enhance the lifestyle of our university toward being sustainable lifestyle, and this very local result can be expanded to be applied in many buildings in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Arab World, and even in the whole earth.

 

     Changing any system or applying new one to modify the existing situation to more efficient one will cost money that prevents changing and modifying the systems. In spite, knowing when this money will return and turn to be savings later on will change the picture view. For that reason we did an approximation to make Abu Dhabi University see when they can return back the money that will be spent to buy and apply the new filters for the sinks and the new electronic faucets for the ablution areas, and when it will become savings.

 

    We evaluated the current situation of water (consumption and cost), and upon the results we got we have suggested alternatives to reduce the unnecessary (consumption and cost) of water in the washrooms, ablution and landscape. Based on the calculations we did, we believe that if our university used the suggestions we provided, it will take another step towards being greenly. We believe also as bigger as the scale of what we suggested applied in, as more savings as we will achieve. Those savings are the future water for the next generations.