SDG 06 – Clean Water and Sanitation 2025

DMU is committed to safe water and sanitation on its campus and to keeping pharmaceuticals and chemicals out of the water system.

On campus

Free filtered drinking water stations are available to students, staff and visitors throughout the campus and hostel.
Restrooms and laboratories are maintained under the Occupational Health and Safety Environment policy (F.4), with water-efficient fixtures and handwashing stations.
Reducing water consumption is one of the five goals of DMU's sustainability programme, set out in the Sustainability Policy (F.6).

Keeping medicines out of water

Pitch@Gov: pharmaceutical waste management (13 September 2025) (Link)

A team of pharmacy students reached the top 12 national projects at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation with “Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Waste Management in the UAE”, addressing medicines that are flushed or dumped and reach water.

Green February (February 2025) (Link)

Pharmacy students taught shoppers and pupils in four schools how to dispose of unused and expired medicines safely.

Sanitation and hygiene education

Germ Busters hand-hygiene campaign (23 October 2025) (Link)

Medical students taught pupils at Al Ittihad Private School, Al Mamzar, how germs spread and how to wash hands properly.

Hand-hygiene lesson at Al Ittihad Private School

Research (2025)

Carboxymethyl-cellulose/starch/copper-oxide nanocomposite hydrogel green synthesis for organic pollutants photocatalytic degradation — Colloids and Surfaces A (DOI)
UAE pharmacists' perceptions of the causes of unwanted or unused medications, their practices, and barriers to promoting safe medication disposal by the public — BMC Public Health (DOI)

Sources

QA Hub registers (events, partnerships, research, scholarships, enrolment), read 19 October 2026
DMU sustainability pages and news, dmu.ae