DUBAI: After introducing Dubai Lamp to save energy consumption, the UAE based firm unveiled “Dubai Tap,” a new brand of water taps with inbuilt valve that will cut 80 per cent of water wastage.
Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality said the taps will first be installed in mosques in Dubai to cut down the high volume of water wastage that takes place during ablution.
Studies had earlier found that several litres of water are left to pour down the drain while people remove socks and shoes, chat, with some even taking a long-time to perform wudu.
“With Dubai Tap we can decrease this water wastage by 80 per cent,” he said.
He said annually, 35,100 litres of water is used by a person during ablution.
With Dubai Tap, this can be reduced to 7,614 litres as it has a flow rate of just 1.41 litres per minutes as compared to 6.5 litres per minute in a standard ablution tap.
That means an estimated 27,486 litres (27.5 cubic metre) of water per person can be saved every year.
