The Municipality and Planning Department in Ajman sets a series of strategic indicators which aim to serve the environment and preserve it in Ajman and the entire Emirates depending on the strategy of the United Arab Emirates that includes air quality, water management and waste management.
In order to achieve this strategy, a specific technology is required to support in the environmental solutions, water and energy, and to disclose the best technology and innovations that are used to reduce emissions of pollutants and use of alternative energy, which would promote a sustainable development in the United Arab Emirates in general and the Emirate of Ajman in particular.
As a result, specialists in the environment sector have made a total number of 8944 examination visits 8944 that included visits to factories, generators, electrical water trade companies for contracting and construction, in addition to the pools, plastic bags factories and stores that use plastic bags.
Based on these visits, 1469 warnings have been given and 89 fines for the institutions that do not comply with the environment requirements. Also, during the current year, the Municipality Department received 275 complaints that had to deal with them with care and responsibility. Likewise, the environment security department has successfully solved 241.9 tons of medical waste from hospitals and medical clinics in the emirate of Ajman, where the surveyors in the division have made 4775 Visits to hospitals and clinics to ensure proper storage and disposal of medical waste.
On the other hand, the food and environment laboratories have analyzed 1000 samples including sea water, underground water, sewage waste-water, swimming pools and cosmetics to ensure its conformity with laws and the environmental specifications. And in order to maintain the natural resources, 25 water wells have been closed and the license of one company has been canceled, so that it was trading in groundwater through wells existing in the company.
It is worth mentioning that the tanks that dump their load of in the wastewater pond sewage without treatment have reported 5 per day in 2013, comparing to 78 tankers on daily basis in 2012, where it has been imposed a strong control provision on factories that produce sewage water and which do not comply with the standards of the Ajman sewerage company and commit them to install processing units; as a result, 60 factories installed processing units in the industrial institutions. Also, it has been installed 270 trap fat and oils to restaurants and labors accommodations in order to prevent diversion into the sewer channel or indiscriminate disposal of oils and fats.
Commenting on this, Engineer Khalid Moeen Al Hosni - Executive Director of Public Health and Environment says: "United Arab Emirates has recorded a quantum leap in adopting the latest green technologies and the best environmental practices discussed in many previous conferences, and which recorded the greatest mark with a positive change and an evident progress in the past few years, where the table was settled for planning, managing and implementing the latest environment-friendly techniques and discussing the most important developments in maintaining the environmental security".
Engineer Khalid added: "The " 3rd Ajman International Environment Conference" shows up being a forum bringing together scientists, researchers, engineers and decision makers to discuss the most prominent achievements and the latest innovations that will enhance the environmental security, whilst the world is heading deeply towards the search for new sources of clean and renewable energy facing challenges and achieving sustainability".
About Ajman:
Extending along the Gulf Coast within an area of 260 square kilometers, Ajman is considered the smallest Emirate in the United Arab Emirates and it combines the fragrance of heritage and the spirit of modernity and development.
The Emirate features the favorite destination to most of investors, visitors and tourists, due to its potential attractions. Therefore, the Municipality of Ajman had an important role in pushing the urban and comprehensive development that the emirate witnesses, which qualified it to win lots of honored prizes for their valuable contributions.
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