Waste Water Treatment 

AUM has two separate piping networks. The first is for sewage and the second is for storm water, in addition to manholes being installed all over the campus. These networks are connected to the municipality’s sewage and storm water network, respectively. Similarly, each building/facility has separate piping for sewage and storm water and these pipes are connected to the campus sewage and storm water network respectively. 

As of 2023, a project was being finalized in view of the urgent need to expand the capacity of wastewater treatment and the removal of the wastewater treatment plant currently located in the southern region of Kuwait. Many structures wastewater treatment project in Umm Al-Hayman have already been completed to such an extent that the installation work for the mechanical and electrical engineering could be started. The plant equipment to be assembled has already been delivered to Kuwait and is being installed step by step.

Water Pollution Prevention

In alignment with Kuwait’s Promulgating The Environment Protection Law No. 42 of 2014 As amended by Law No. 99 of 2015, AUM adopted its Water Pollution Prevention Policy.

In brief, the policy prohibits the “release of any material or energy in the aquatic environment deliberately or unintentionally, directly or indirectly, resulting in damages to living resources or threatening human health or obstructing water activities including fishing, spoiling navigational activities, tourism and development, or quality of seawater, or deprives its suitability for use by people thereof, or altering its properties”.

Moreover, the waste management and recycling program at AUM highly support the water pollution prevention (reducing plastic, paper and other waste, etc.)

AUM has a system to prevent polluted water to enter the water system by using waste water management and filters. On another note, although it takes more manpower efforts, cleaning the lakes at AUM is done through organic means without the use of chemicals so as animals won’t get affected.

AUM regularly monitors and evaluates the water quality. Tests are done monthly by the National Chemical Petroleum Industries and the reports reveal that the water is clean.

Free Drinking Water for all on campus

Reducing the sale of plastic bottles on AUM campus and encouraging the use of reusable materials, such as glass, and the installation of free and clean drinking water dispensers in all university facilities. This is one of the measures implemented within AUM in collaborations with local institutions, in addition to treating waste water.

The University is committed to coordinating actions such as doubling the number of drinking fountains that can be used by all members of the university as well as by visitors to the university facilities. In addition, AUM has generated campaigns to reduce the use of plastics at the local level in its goal to achieve more sustainability throughout the region.

Within the chemical engineering process is the study of water, the professional opportunities to become more involved in this process and of course the research that the university maintains on clean water.

Water conscious building standards and planting

AUM uses sustainable sanitation practices including water efficient appliances available in buildings and water conscious planting techniques.

Two lakes and campus landscape with forest and planted vegetation use the few seasonal rainfall, with techniques that conserve the limited rainfall for irrigation. Moreover, techniques are adopted to reuse water for various purposes.