Achievements
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The performance of “The Public Authority of Environment” witnessed a significant progress in performance in the year 2009 in all levels in fields of controlling the water, air and soil pollution resources and putting and applying the general policies of protecting environment in order t achieve the sustainable development including the suitable health, environmental and scientific standards for human being livings and industrial and housing expansion in collaboration with the competent systems in the state.
Authority pursues during this year to control the related activities, procedures and practices to protect the environment, follow it, estimate it and identify the pollutants and specify the standards for environmental awareness and prepare the decree laws and regulations, systems and conditions related to protecting environment and follow its execution and direct, support environment studies and researches and to follow, estimate, evaluate its results and specify the problems resulted from environment pollutions by assisting from state authorities and systems concerned of environment and suggests the suitable solutions and follow its applications. In addition to study the international and regional conventions concerning the environment affairs and giving the opinion concerning joining to it and putting and following the general framework of environment awareness program and environment education in order to attract the awareness of citizens and incite them to participate in protecting the environment, the following is a summary of the most important achievement of authority at the last years:
Fish death phenomenon:
General Authority for Environment takes the required procedures as soon as marine survey teams related discover big quantities of dead fish along the region extended from Salam coast till Council of Nation building in Sunday on 19/09/1999 as they called ministry of electricity and water in order to inquire about the chlorinate percentage that water is injected with it at power plants, then technicians in the general authority of environment take many groups of samples of dead and alive fish and samples of seawater, sludge and Plankton in order to be laboratory analyzed. Authority forms teamwork includes representatives of public authority of agriculture and fish resources affairs and ministry of electricity and water and ministry of health and Kuwait institution for scientific researches and the public authority for applied education and training and Kuwait university and Kuwaiti association for environment protection and ministry of interior (coast guards department) and Kuwait municipality in addition to technicians from general authority for environment. The teamwork is commissioned to study the fish death phenomenon and know the reasons and causes led to be happened.
Sample analysis results sent to specialized laboratories in Britain and America on different fish tissues, gills, liver and fish entrails that collected indicate that they have no effect of harmful material whether through the effects of red tide process or other factors. The analysis results are in conformity with analysis results of general authority of environment laboratory and Kuwait institute of scientific researches.
Results of air and water Analysis samples that collected in accompanied with experts from Florida and word island Universities in USA from many different region inside Kuwait Zone indicate that the red tide phenomenon is affirmed in the region especially inside Kuwait zone that covered wide regions that affect on the superficial region of water and lead to make environmental imbalance of natural water specifications especially dissolved oxygen within night periods and sometimes during day light especially when air layers are condensed with large numbers with superficial water, accordingly, this leads to increase the water viscosity coefficient which negatively affect on the fish ability to extract oxygen.
Early Alarm Project to observe the marine environment pollutants:
Beside the efforts exerted by the general authority of environment in order to discover the causes of fish death phenomenon, authority begins to execute an intensive program aimed to early observe the harmful plankton on marine environment that was the core reason of this phenomenon or to discover any unnatural change of reproduction and development of these plankton qualitatively and quantitatively via studying the distribution and concentration of chlorophyll and other physical factors for 11 sites inside Kuwait zone and external plan in the depth of northern eastern region of Filka island which lies at the meeting point of fresh water with gulf water.
There are other four sites in southern region till Zour port in order to increase the survey area and concentrate survey works in order to limit the region and all its borders to indicate the importance of early alarm in reducing the environment problems that may be increased as a result of red tide phenomenon at occurrence in the future.
Standards and capacity of judicial officers:
General authority of environment prepares an executive regulation of authority establish law No. 21/1995 and amended with law No. 16/1996 concerning the environment requirements, conditions and standards required for State of Kuwait.
This regulation includes the majority of environment, begins from committing and obligating all personnel, facilities, government and private establishments to provide and submit technical study about the environment reaction before getting the approval to establish new project or to make expansions on current project, to environment and engineering conditions and requirements for many of industrial activities and others that they should comply with it at executing and constructing project, specify the maximum allowed limits for which personnel and employees in work environment and internal environment exposed to natural and chemical risks in order to keep and save the work health and not to be exposed to occupational diseases or injuries. They also obligated to put the required standards and limits in order to be ensure from the quality of air in residential and industrial places and regions in State of Kuwait, to put standards of air pollutants rates emitted from fixed and movable resources, regional seawater quality standards, specifications of drained water to seawater, drain water or used water in irrigation and other standards that all aimed at using and applying them to measure and ensure the quality from different environment sides from air, soil and water.
Put limit to exhaust ozone layer:
In order to execute the commitments of state of Kuwait concerning Vienna convention to protect Ozone layer and Montreal protocol concerning exhausted material of Ozone layer, ozone layer protection committee emerged from the authority to study the provisions of the aforementioned protocol and convention and they directed a letter to legislation and fatwa department in order to issue five decrees concerning the following:
- Organize import Halogen
- Establish bank for halogen
- Provide maintenance facilities with recycling equipment.
- Ban import equipments includes dangerous material
- Organize the import process of registered dissolvent.
Natural reserves:
Natural reserves are considered one the authority priorities as it is considered from the important items for any environment policy, on all over the world, it is preferred to be at least 15% of each country area as a natural reserves, naturally the authority seeks to increase the natural reserve proportion in the country in collaboration with competent authorities in order to save and keep the animal and plant life and natural scenes and separate the species threatened with extinction in order to reconstitute colonies for them in regions that was damaged.
Environment strategy
General authority of environment prepares environment strategy project for state of Kuwait that includes the special strategy of water, air, coasts, environment economic, oil, health, environment awareness, environment education, land and soil. This environment strategy of state of Kuwait aims the following:
1- Reserve the natural environment and its diversity and labored power resources in order to achieve sustainable development.
2- Sustainable development of agriculture activities and animal resources.
3- Suit the residential and housing development and architectural characteristics with environment conditions.
4- Proper profits from using technology that has no negative effect on human being or environment.
5- Work on encouraging researches in the field of human powers and protecting environment and resources.
6- Support awareness, education and developing human reaction with environment in order to protect and sustain development.
7- Participate in international environment protection on the national measure.
8- Make the environment reaction within the basic considerations in determining and developing the projects and policies of resources development in all fields and in determining the planning and developmental priorities in state.
9- Reduce the natural catastrophes risks on the safety and health of human being and environment and enforce the role of legislations and laws to protect environment.