Kahramaa Water Awareness Park, Doha, Qatar

• Dana 3D Dome: takes guests on a journey exploring the start of the universe, where water comes from, its scarcity in our region, and our local need to desalinate it. through the eyes of a young boy named Majid and his grandfather.
• “My Grandparents” Augmented Reality Wall: explores how water & lighting were possible, and very hard to get, for the previous generations. They are not to be taken for granted.
• History of Water Pumps: explores artifacts used for moving water throughout history of mankind, and how Arabic and Muslim scientists contributed with their inventions.
• Qatoura’s (The water droplet) Journey: the ride’s vehicles take the visitors through animated sets filled with special effects on a captivating journey through the water cycle. It also explores photosynthesis, water usage, desalination, and water pollution.
• Using Water Efficiently Section: allows the guests to calculate their own water footprint, how much water different products need to be produced, and how some activities at home or at work use water, in addition to exploring the works of one of the seawater desalination plants from Qatar.
• Tarsheed (Rationalization) House: Explores the uses of modern smart technologies at home to help reduce water & electricity usage. Aerators, dual flush systems, and smart shower heads are explored.
• Green Building Exhibit (sponsored by Siemens): is an interactive games that allows visitors to build their own sustainable building. It explores greywater recycling, rainwater harvesting, the use of native plants, and local water filtration systems among other building science topics.

Qatar is in the heart of the water scarcity problem. As such, a special focus of KAP is raising awareness regarding water scarcity, and vulnerability of losing the little natural sources of water represented in underground water and the mission to provide and sustain adequate and efficient water services and sources to the people of Qatar by reducing its wastage, conserving it and efficiently using it and finding better ways to desalinate sea waters.

KAP stands as the embodiment of implementing UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of its already developed or still in progress projects with respect to Water Conservation thus working towards no poverty, no hunger, clean water and sanitation, sustainable cities and communities, and responsible consumption & production among the people of Qatar and its community and sectors.

Visits at KAHRAMAA Awareness Park include the following exhibits related to water usage and desalination technologies:

• Dana 3D Dome: takes guests on a journey exploring the start of the universe, where water comes from, its scarcity in our region, and our local need to desalinate it.
• “My Grandparents” Augmented Reality Wall: explores how water & lighting were possible, and very hard to get, for the previous generations. They are not to be taken for granted.
• History of Water Pumps: explores artifacts used for moving water throughout history of mankind, and how Arabic and Muslim scientists contributed with their inventions.
• Qatoura’s (The water droplet) Journey: the ride’s vehicles take the visitors through animated sets filled with special effects on a captivating journey through the water cycle. It also explores photosynthesis, water usage, desalination, and water pollution.
• Using Water Efficiently Section: allows the guests to calculate their own water footprint, how much water different products need to be produced, and how some activities at home or at work use water, in addition to exploring the works of one of the seawater desalination plants from Qatar.
• Tarsheed (Rationalization) House: Explores the uses of modern smart technologies at home to help reduce water & electricity usage. Aerators, dual flush systems, and smart shower heads are explored.
• Green Building Exhibit (sponsored by Siemens): is an interactive games that allows visitors to build their own sustainable building. It explores greywater recycling, rainwater harvesting, the use of native plants, and local water filtration systems among other building science topics.
• Augmented Reality Games: Through this new technology of (AR) a number of games and fun zones and exhibits educate in a fun learning manner the importance of water and its conservation and pillars of wasting it
• Library & Research Zone: Providing a world of articles, researches, books and exhibits for researchers and students and connected to Qatar National Library resources besides a number of sustainability centers and studies.

N.B: Funding is mainly through KAHRAMAA. However, there are a number of local private sector companies/corporations and a number of global partners (companies/organizations).

The Tarsheed Carnival is being organized annually by Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa). The main goal of the carnival is to raise awareness about rational use of electricity and water to achieve water and electric sustainability.

It is also aimed at the community’s participation in the goals of rationalisation and educating future generations about the importance of electricity and water and the importance of rationalisation in their use.

The Carnival includes many events and awareness activities for the public and private school students with a number of events celebrating Qatar.

The opening of the Carnival is usually coincided with the World Water Day being marked on March 22 and the start of the Gulf Conservation Week which usually takes place starting March 24.

The events are held in morning and evening sessions, focusing on school students and the general public.

Kahramaa, through its National Campaign for the Conservation and Efficient Use of Water and Electricity in Qatar “Tarsheed” annually celebrates Gulf Conservation Week which usually takes place on March 24^th, in order raise awareness about rational use of electricity and water to achieve water and electric sustainability.

The event usually involves various interactive and educational activities related to energy and water conservation.

This zone is specifically designed to allow researchers and university students to work on their researches that are related to water sustainability and conservation through the tabs that include special databases that are linked to Kahramaa’s server and provide them with the right environment to do their research.

Tarsheed library is considered a forum for science and knowledge in corporation with Qatar National Library to educate the Park’s visitors especially researchers, school and university students and provide them with various books and and access to the special databases that are linked to Kahramaa’s server.

KAHRAMAA Awareness Park (KAP) is a water and electricity awareness museum that has recently opened its doors to the public in April of 2017 and strongly aims by June 2018 to fund and sponsor water research programs related to water sustainability and conservation for university and school students.