SUSTAINABLE DESALINATION

Welcome to the site of the Membranes and Sustainable Desalination Research group (MSDR) at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). We are a vibrant research group of researchers (research scientists and graduate students), led by Prof. Hassan Arafat, from the Water and Environmental Engineering Program at Masdar Institute. Here is the story of why we are here and what we do: Water security is becoming, more than ever, a pressing issue for many countries around the world, particularly in the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf region. With an all-time record population growth in the Gulf countries, accompanied by a depletion of groundwater resources, escalating standards of living and the world's highest per-capita water consumption rates, securing safe drinking water for the population in the Gulf region is no trivial task. It is no surprise then that all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are highly dependent on desalinated water. Seawater..

Primary location: Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates