Over the course of 5 years, from 2016 to 2020, Dar Al Ber Society completed 50 water projects for drinking purposes and other domestic and civil uses, in a number of the water-poor areas in the world, with a total cost of 162 million 634 thousand and 166 dirhams.

Engineer Khalfan Khalifa Al Mazrouei, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dar Al Ber Society, confirmed that the total number of water projects launched during the past five years amounted to 50,379 diversified projects in 37 countries, including 1,880 projects currently under implementation.

Engineer Khalfan Al Mazrouei explained that the water projects implemented by the Society in the world and which they still continue to work in them are divided into 20 types of projects, including projects for drilling and constructing artesian wells, medium and near-depth wells, wells with hand pumps, wells with electric pumps, private wells, constructing water stations, extending water networks, providing cold water coolers, installing water tanks, constructing basins to collect and preserve rainwater, building dams to retain wasted water, watering projects, maintaining wells, and installing water filters.

For his part, Mohammed Suhail Al Muhairi, CEO and Managing Director of Dar Al Ber Society, said: “The water projects aim to provide water to people in different parts of the world, which is at the top of the priorities of Dar Al Ber Society, since its inception until today and one of the most important and prominent of which is the providing of permanent water projects in the Society. This in light of the saying of the Prophet, may Allah’s peace be upon him, “The best charity is to provide water”, and the importance of water for life, people, development, progress and sustainability.”

Al Muhairi stressed that tens of thousands of people around the world have benefited from the projects of the Dar Al Ber Society in the field of water provision, over the past years, in a number of continents of the world, especially in remote villages and distant towns in Africa and Asia, pointing to the widespread demand by benefactors, donors and philanthropists in the Emirates to donate to water projects which has made it one of the most charitable and humanitarian projects, which receives a wide response and remarkable interaction by philanthropists.