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The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) is chaired by Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Vice Chairman is Mohamed Ahmed Al Bowardi. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak is the managing director and board member. The Secretary-General is Dr.Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri. [3] EAD has its main headquarters in the city of Abu Dhabi, with an office in Al Ain city.
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak ( Arabic: رزان خليفة المبارك; born 1979, Abu Dhabi) is the Managing Director of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), [1] and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund as well as the current president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. [2]
The Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (ADFH) is the first public medical institution exclusively for falcons in the United Arab Emirates. Established by Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi and opened on 3 October 1999, Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital has become the largest falcon hospital in the UAE and in the world with a patient influx of approximately 11,000 falcons per year.
In February 2019, the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi recorded the sighting of an Arabian caracal by camera trap in Jebel Hafeet National Park, the first such sighting in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi since 1984. In March, a Blanford's fox was observed using the same technique, after an absence of about 17 years. Archeological findings
As of January 1, 2015, UAE citizens pay 1.7 Dirham (US$0.46) per cubic meter of water for a very generous first block of consumption, which is set at 700 liters per day for apartments and 7,000 litres per day for villas. Above these amounts, the tariff increases slightly to 1.89 Dirham (US$0.51) per cubic meter.
An Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi Ranger Station is located on the island. Archipelago [ edit ] Bu Tinah is a cluster of islands and shoals , joined or almost so at low water, with nowhere greater than two or three metres above sea level.
The Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi (EAD) states that groundwater is the most significant source of water, as well as desalinated potable water, and treated sewage effluent. At 40.6 MiGD, the Umm Al Nar storage is the largest water source for Abu Dhabi, followed by the rivers Shuweihat and Taweelah.
In the 2014 environment statistics report from the Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi, demonstrates its sharply increasing water consumption from 667 million cubic meters in 2005 to 1.126 billion cubic meters in 2014. By 2025 the Arab countries will face serious levels of water scarcity regardless of climate change.