scholarly journals STORED WATER QUALITY IN HOUSEHOLD ROOF TANKS OF VILLAS IN SELECTED AREAS OF SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCY SEMERJIAN ◽  
HANAN OBAID ◽  
HUDA ZAROUNI
Author(s):  
Munjed A. Maraqa ◽  
Ayub Ali ◽  
Madduri V. Rao ◽  
Waleed Hamza ◽  
Hassan D. Imran ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eihab Fathelrahman ◽  
Mohamed Gheblawi ◽  
Safdar Muhammad ◽  
Emily Dunn ◽  
James C. Ascough ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCY SEMERJIAN ◽  
SAHWA ABDELMONIM ◽  
NOURA AL-JABRI ◽  
AMNA YOUSEF

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-617 ◽  

<div> <p>The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of the leading countries in the per capita bottled water consumption. This seems to be in controversy with adherences of local water authorities to stringent municipal water standards. A public survey (n= 891) was conducted to ascertain the perception of people in the country regarding bottled and tap water quality. The survey form was formulated based on the stated preference approach and was furnished in both Arabic and English languages. Some questions in the survey form require rating the quality of tap water and identifying the type of water the respondent drinks. For respondents who usually drink bottled water, they were asked to choose the reason(s) why they usually drink bottled water. Those who drink tap water more often were similarly asked to choose the reason(s) why they prefer tap water to bottled water. The study revealed that a large fraction of the UAE residents classify the quality of tap water as either good or excellent, yet many of them drink bottled water. This could be attributed in part to the high standard of living where the cost of bottled water is considered by the majority of the respondents as affordable. Other influential factors include the belief that bottled water has a better taste and concerns about tap water contamination. The latter may stem from the perception that water is not sufficiently treated or contamination is induced into the water from the distribution system or the in-house storage tanks. The study shows that more people in the UAE will drink tap water if relevant authorities provide information about tap water quality and if regular inspections and cleaning of the in-house storage tanks is conducted.</p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>


Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.


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