Long awaited Kahrama Awareness Park opening this week
The Kahrama Awareness Park is finally opening its gates this week, after continual delays over the past few years.
Built in Al-Thumama under the aegis of the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, one of the park’s main aims is to educate the future generation on the use and conservation of energy.
The focus is largely on water and electricity conservation, and educating people about desertification and water scarcity, and how it may be countered. The park’s purpose is to achieve this through exhibitions and activities, so that people may enjoy themselves while absorbing this knowledge.
A solar 41-metre-long solar panel with the capacity of 63.3kv has been set up in the park, along with three wind turbines with the capacity of 10kv electricity for each. They are expected to reduce 37 tons of carbon dioxide and help in keeping the park’s name sustainable.
The park has received of Qatar Sustainability Assessment Award (QSAS). Al-Mansoori, the man behind the project, has stated previously that the park in fact provides a landscape that “resists desertification” and in fact “encourages green”.
This green innovation is in line with other projects that Qatar has hosted in the past, such as the Sahara Forest pilot project, which concentrated on sustainable methods of desert greening, water conservation and re-usage as well.
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