This course offers the participants an overview of the water situation in the UAE, as well as an introduction to the technical issues associated to water resources estimation, analysis, planning and management. Additionally, participants will be prepared for more advanced activities related to specific issues such as statistical hydrology, deterministic hydrology, or risk analysis in water resources.

It introduces desalination technologies, the various processes and their integration with alternative energy resources (as solar and nuclear), and focuses on the global water shortages and demonstrates how the application of membrane technology can provide modern tools for further cost reduction, in addition to providing an overview of membrane separation process including membrane classifications, and challenges facing this technology.