00:00Dzisiaj Crispy
00:02Nie przeszłysze się w niemieckim że jest trudne.
00:05W latach w miarczych Dieserka wiesz,
00:07W małym kosztą 2.5 m3.
00:12Wtedy jak to wystarczy do wsadku w całości.
00:16W gemόaltu nhất,
00:18Ta w ludzi jest w wystarczającej mniej zewnątrz.
00:22W tamte,
00:23Dzień dobry z tygodniu,
00:25gdzie nie już się posz Reichl��.
00:27I've been given special access to uncover
00:29how Qatar is creating a sustainable oasis
00:33for its green landscape.
00:35I'm Laila Humaira, and this is Qatar In Motion.
00:42Water.
00:43It's what covers around 70% of the Earth's surface.
00:46Yet how to manage it
00:47has been one of mankind's biggest challenges.
00:50So where and how does Qatar get its water supply?
00:54There are a few ways.
00:56The first method is seawater and desalination.
00:59This creates 99% of potable water
01:02that's safe for consumption.
01:05Then comes groundwater extraction and treated wastewater.
01:08But it's important to note that these two methods
01:11are purely for agricultural and industrial use.
01:15The Gulf state has pumped nearly $30 billion
01:18over the last 13 years
01:20to reach its National Vision 2030 target
01:23of slashing water use in agriculture by 40%.
01:29You may know this place as Katara Cultural Village,
01:32home to Qatar's annual Dow Festival, an amphitheater,
01:36plenty of restaurants, cafes, art galleries, and even hotels.
01:41But dozens of meters below this cultural district
01:44is an innovative water treatment facility.
01:47And I'm getting a special tour of what's called the Katara Project.
01:53Under the green hills and bustling souk of Katara,
01:56we enter a whole new world.
01:59A hidden secret that's quietly helping the country
02:02turn a page in water sustainability.
02:05Water management is an inevitable challenge.
02:08But that hasn't stopped Katara from finding long-term solutions,
02:12like tapping on the 170-year expertise of French utilities company Veolia.
02:18Veolia has collaborated with Katara Project to build
02:23the first water reuse facility of its kind in Katara,
02:27in Katara, the treated sewage effluent, we call TSE polishing plant,
02:32by reusing water for irrigation and as a make-up water for district cooling.
02:39The facility is also a part of Veolia's new, wider,
02:43three-year ecological strategy called Green Up,
02:46which aims to depollute, decarbonize,
02:49and regenerate the world's natural resources.
02:52This ambitious initiative focuses on delivering solutions
02:57that address today's most pressing environmental challenges
03:01while building resilience for the future.
03:04The Green Up strategy tackles multiple dimensions of environmental control,
03:11where water technologies represent one of the three key boosters.
03:17The Middle East region has also been designated as one of Veolia's
03:24three accelerated growth geographies.
03:27So what actually goes behind these pipes?
03:30And what's the science and mechanics putting everything in motion?
03:34Nicolas Tournier is the Head of Operations and Performance at Veolia,
03:38and he breaks it down for us.
03:40So here we are in a TSE polishing plant.
03:43So the TSE water is arriving here behind this wall,
03:47so that's where it's stored before being treated.
03:50And the water goes inside those pipes, so you may not see it,
03:54but it goes first through these self-cleaning filters,
03:58and then it will go along the treatments,
04:01and then it moves on in these GRP pipes,
04:05and it goes to the UF filtration membranes that we have here.
04:10So inside these vessels are filtration membranes that continue polishing the water.
04:18But there's also another peculiar question.
04:22Why was this plant built underneath Katara Cultural Village?
04:26The plant is located on the ground to minimize visual impact
04:30and reduce noise pollution in this very important cultural and touristic destination.
04:36The Katara project requirement was that it had to fit inside this basement
04:41to help conserve valuable land space.
04:44So we designed a tailored solution that could fit inside the space constraint and power supply requirements.
04:53By using this facility, up to 15,000 cubic meters of water is saved per day.
04:59That's 15 million liters.
05:01To give you an idea, that's approximately six Olympic-sized swimming pools,
05:07which is a lot of water.
05:08And instead of using massive amounts of fresh water to sprinkle over gardens and cool districts,
05:14the technology being deployed here means that raw sewage can be turned into reusable,
05:19but high-quality water.
05:21At the moment, the water is being used for the intended purpose of a plant,
05:25which is feeding of the cooling towers and irrigation.
05:29So people can enjoy a nice air-conditioned environment in Katara's cafes and retail spaces,
05:37while also enjoying the lush vegetation of Katara Green Hills.
05:42So while the general public may not see the plant itself like you are seeing today,
05:47they may enjoy its many benefits while visiting Katara.
05:51Like clockwork, these sprinklers at Katara Hills switch on precisely at a certain time,
05:58several times a day, to keep the grass green.
06:01Just by looking at the lush lawn,
06:02it's hard to tell that the temperature in Katara can hit nearly 50 degrees Celsius in the summer.
06:08Other than beautifying the landscape, there's also a cost advantage to using this treated water.
06:14By reusing water, this plant allows Katara Project to reduce water costs dramatically.
06:20And it's not just the sprinklers. The water in the fountains, cooling towers,
06:40and small canals like these that run all around Katara Cultural Village,
06:45are the products of the treated sewage affluent that's been processed beneath the district.
06:50As heritage, creativity, history, and art continue to flood the spaces around Katara Cultural Village,
06:58so will the flow of technology and innovation that's helping to keep it all afloat
07:03and steering Katara towards a greener future.
07:06Elsewhere in Katara, other institutions and individuals are helping to shape the next generation of water scientists.
07:17This is the Education City Ceremonial Court, a multi-purpose open-air space with intricate designs
07:23that exude grandeur and elegance. But there's also deep meaning in these waters and wisdom in the study of its cycle.
07:31I'm Raha Hakim Navar. I'm a hydrologist and also a research professor and senior advisor at Georgetown University.
07:40The focus of my work is around issues of water scarcity and water security,
07:46but also around disasters and how we manage water-related disasters.
07:51I work a lot with satellite remote sensing, so data from space. There's such a wealth of Earth observations
07:59or data coming from anything that's not ground-based. The work for me is personally
08:05the most rewarding thing I could imagine doing. I'm from a city called Esfahan in central Iran.
08:12We also would experience periods of droughts, and I think that also made me very fascinated with the times
08:19that we had rain. I loved it. I loved going outside when it was raining, and I loved collecting the water
08:24because it wouldn't rain all the time. Probably that early interest is what got me to get into hydrology.
08:31I wanted to be a part of things that could have real impact. What I'm really curious about is how we can
08:38integrate all this different research to connect it with decision-making, to connect it with policies,
08:45to connect it with economic decisions. We're testing new ways of immersive-based teaching
08:51of environmental science to students that are not necessarily studying for an environmental science degree.
08:56Students got to learn about their immediate environment, which is Education City,
09:01looking at the facilities management of the buildings, how water and energy is managed,
09:06what are some of the challenges, and what are some of the exciting innovative things that are being implemented right here,
09:10where we live. Last year, we had students from Georgetown University in Qatar that were competitively
09:16selected to join a course about climate change adaptation in Greece. I think really having the
09:24students spend time in this place-based way to understand these challenges, to engage with the community,
09:31to engage with the people, the NGOs, the civil organizations that are doing a lot of the work on the ground.
09:38A lot of the challenges around water are extremely interdisciplinary. There are students that are
09:43learning economics, politics, culture, and arts, and the humanities. They can serve as those
09:49translators between the science, between the technical, between what may be research,
09:54and where decision-making needs to take place.
10:00My quest to learn more about how Qatar will continue to develop its water technology,
10:05has led me to the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute at Hamad bin Khalifa University.
10:11As its name suggests, KIRI is a leading research, development, and innovation institute.
10:17One of its main focus areas is water security, and I'm going to meet Dr. Khaled Mahmoud, who heads the
10:24water center at KIRI.
10:25Speaking in water security in general, we know that Qatar relies majorly on desalination for drinking
10:34water and consumption of water for public. There are actually this big project for storing drinking
10:41water in the mega reservoirs, and currently we have over five days kind of water security reserve,
10:48and the target actually to go to seven days storage. Now, as I mentioned, they are enforcing the
10:55utilization of treated wastewater in these applications, so that we can relieve the pressure on
11:02both either the desalinated water that's stored or ground water, which is an issue that Qatar is
11:09trying to kind of fix, where the salinity of the ground water is rising up because of the abstraction,
11:16less rain recently due to climate change, and so on. So I see that there is a big future for reusing
11:23the treated wastewater to actually enforce the water security in Qatar.
11:30So while Veolia's water treatment facility is a hidden secret of Katara Cultural Village,
11:35it's no mystery that it's helping Qatar move towards a more water secure and sustainable future.
11:42Sometimes it's worth looking beneath the surface in order to move ahead, and I certainly gained a new
11:48appreciation for this iconic district. That's all the time we have for now.
11:53Thanks for watching Qatar in Motion and see you next time.
