- About the sixth goal
- 6.2: Water consumption per person
- 6.3: Water usage and care
- 6.4: Water reuse
- 6.5: Water in the community
SDG 6.3.3: Provide free drinking water
Free drinking water is available on campus for students, staff, faculty, and outsourced workers via water fountains and stations. The fountains are equipped with reusable water bottles to reduce use of single‑use plastic bottles.
Goal-related news
Qassim University has obtained a patent document from the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) for the innovation of "a system and method for desalination using a halophyte plant", through a closed biological system that can convert highly saline water into distilled fresh water so that the system works naturally and can produce fresh water in commercial quantities. The research team led by Dr. Abdulaziz [...]
2022-09-27
His Excellency Prof. Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Dawood, President of the University, signed two contracts yesterday morning, Sunday 19/9/1439 A.H., for the implementation of several projects with a total value of more than 25 million riyals. The signed contracts included the project to complete the infrastructure of wireless networks, the project to implement the buildings of the wastewater treatment plant, the animal waste treatment plant at the research station and [...]
2018-06-04