Overview
In its desert setting, the University manages water as a scarce and shared resource, conserving and reusing it across its campus.
The University pursues this goal across its teaching, its scientific research, its campus operations and its service to the community. The sections below set out how it delivers the goal, the activities held during the year, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitment.
How the University delivers this goal
- Treats and reuses water for irrigation and vehicle washing through the governmental treated-water network.
- Operates processes that prevent untreated or polluted water entering the water system.
- Provides free drinking-water points for students, staff and visitors.
- Applies water-conscious building standards and drought-tolerant desert landscaping.
- Runs water-awareness campaigns on campus and in the wider community.
Activities in 2023/24
- The University ran its annual water-conservation awareness campaigns for students and staff, promoting careful water use across the campus and residences through signage, talks and student-led activities.
Research & publications in 2023/24
During 2023/24, researchers at Future University in Egypt published 11 Scopus-indexed research outputs that contribute to this goal, across its faculties and research centre. Representative works include:
- Engineering of metal organic framework (MOF) membrane for waste water treatment: Synthesis, applications and future challenges. Shahid, M.U. and 8 more (2024). Journal of Water Process Engineering · cited 156 times.
- Recent trends in wastewater treatment by using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their composites: A critical view-point. Shah, S.S.A. and 11 more (2024). Chemosphere · cited 114 times.
- Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting the Water Quality Index. Hussein, E.E. and 5 more (2023). Water (Switzerland) · cited 78 times.
- Solutions of a three-dimensional multi-term fractional anomalous solute transport model for contamination in groundwater. Ahmad, I. and 4 more (2023). PLoS ONE · cited 60 times.
Policies supporting this goal
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