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6.3.4
Goal six: Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 6.3.4: Water-friendly building standards
In response to water scarcity and environmental sustainability, Qassim university has taken proactive steps to incorporate water-conscious building standards into the design, construction, renovation, and operation of all campus buildings. The university integrates principles from globally recognized sustainable building standards that emphasize the reduction of indoor and outdoor water use, efficient plumbing systems, leak detection and prevention, install automatic leak detection systems and shut-off valves, wastewater reuse. In addition, all new buildings in the university are based on Saudi National buildings codes which satisfy the required water conscious standards.
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