SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
6.5 Water in the Community
During Fall semester 2022, AUM Young Inventors Students Club organized a full day of academic activities focused on the theme of Sustainability with competitions and prizes. This event tackled Water in Kuwait: Sources, Quality, Treatment and the Technology Behind.
The American University of the Middle East (AUM) celebrated World Water Day on March 22 by organizing an online event for students that included various activities and competitions.
The event started by giving an overview about World Water Day (WWD), the challenges the planet is facing regarding water, this year’s theme, which is Valuing Water, and by discussing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially SDG6 - Clean Water and Sanitation.
Dr. Suat Kasap, Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and Technology, talked during the event about the types of water on our planet and about responsible consumption; what each person can do as an individual to help combat the crisis the planet is facing concerning water.
Water and SDG-related topics are widely reflected in the graduation projects of AUM students and graduates and this was touched upon during the event as well. Some of the graduation projects related to water include a smart irrigation system, a clean water quality monitoring system using IOT, an automated plant watering system using Arduino, a water leak detection system, and a smart cooling system for water tanks in Kuwait.
Students who attended the event via Zoom participated in a trivia quiz competition at the end of the session that included questions about the challenges the world is facing regarding Water.
A week prior to the event, AUM asked students to submit a piece of art related to this year’s WWD theme. A jury shortlisted the artwork and displayed them during the event where students voted for the best digital art and best painting and prizes were distributed to the winners in the arts competition and the trivia quiz.
AUM Valuing Water Arts Competition
On the occasion of World Water Day, AUM launched an arts competition on “Valuing Water” to allow students to show their creative and artistic side by describing what water means to them through a drawing, a painting or a photograph.
A jury shortlisted the artwork and displayed them during the event where students voted for the best digital art and best painting and prizes were distributed to the winners in the arts competition and the trivia quiz.
The possibility of oil spill accidents at sea can have devastating effects on the marine and coastal environment. For monitoring and mitigation purposes, timely detection and continuously updated information on contaminated areas is required. One proposal to determine when even the smallest failure occurs is to use devices that determine when these leaks occur.
This in turn will help in the government process to generate drinking water for all inhabitants as there are no contaminating agents in the water for proper treatment.
In response to this problem, AUM students developed a project to present during the event, a Remote Operated Vehicle for Monitoring Oil Leaks and Spills in Deep Water. This project is being carried out by our Electrical and Mechanical Engineering AUM'ers: Fatmeh Al Qasem , Eiman Al Zamel, Abdurahman Al Qasem, Zainab Al-Arbas and Naeemah Al-Jassim.
Water is one of the research themes at AUM:
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