ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Hassad Food QA signs deal for investments with Qatar in Turkey 2015 officials Business | 17 Sport | 25 Tuesday 30 September 2014 • 6 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6204 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Barshim bags gold Ghani sworn in as Water filter Afghan president; deal with US today KABUL: Ashraf Ghani, a one- time US-based academic, was firms mislead sworn in as new president of Afghanistan yesterday and used his inaugural speech to call for Taliban insurgents to join peace talks after 13 years of war. customers Officials said Ghani’s first major policy move would be the signing today of a long-delayed agreement Expert dispels doubts about water quality allowing 12,500 US-led troops to remain in Afghanistan into 2015 DOHA: Complaints are rising home. What these sales persons to support and train the national against some companies sell- demonstrate is a simple chemical police and army. ing water filters by giving mis- procedure known as electrolysis, “We ask opponents of the gov- leading information about the in which water is broken down ernment, especially the Taliban quality of tap water and bot- into oxygen and hydrogen by pass- and Hezb-e-Islami (another tled water in Qatar. ing electric current between two militant group), to enter politi- Representatives of these com- electrodes immersed in water. cal talks,” Ghani said after being panies are said to be visiting The electrodes react with water sworn in. houses and conducting some to form a precipitate of yellow “Any problems that they have, chemical experiments to con- iron hydroxide, commonly known they should tell us, we will find vince people that drinking water as rust, which causes a sudden a solution. We ask every villager in Qatar is contaminated and change in the colour. Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim, gold medal winner in the men’s high jump, poses for a picture with Qatar Olympic to call for peace. We ask Muslim needs an expensive water filter They do the experiment both Committee Secretary-General Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and coach Stanislaw Szczyrba in scholars to advise the Taliban, and to purify it. with tap water and bottled water Incheon, South Korea, yesterday. See also pages 26 & 28 if they don’t listen to their advice, Health authorities in Qatar had and tell the customers that they they should cut off relations.” earlier issued warnings against don’t have to waste money on bot- AFP such firms and explained that tap tled water since it is also contami- See also page 13 water in Qatar is of high quality nated like tap water. Instead, they and does not require a sophisti- must go for a “high quality” water Steel flyover near cated filter using Reverse Osmosis filter and get rid of all impurities Airport staff now under QA (RO). Such filters would normally in tap water. Abu Hamour opens cost from QR2,000 to QR2,500. A salesperson in a company DOHA: Qatar Civil Aviation by the QCAA after adding the According to newspaper selling bottled water told this Authority (QCAA) and Qatar Airport Operations Management to traffic today reports, the UAE health authori- daily that he had received calls Airways signed here yesterday a department as per the specifi- ties recently issued a warning from many customers raising memorandum of understanding cations approved by the Qatar DOHA: A temporary steel against some companies resort- doubts about the quality of their on absorbing employees work- Aeronautical College. This is part flyover built over Khamees Al FIXTURES TODAY ing to deceptive techniques to product. ing at the Hamad International of QCAA’s strategy to employ Obaidly Roundabout near the (ALL TIMES IN GMT) force residents into buying their He said all of them were influ- Airport (HIA) in Qatar competent Qatari cadres to work Medical Commission headquar- CSKA Moscow (Russia) vs Bayern Munich water filters and purifying sys- enced by the misleading water Airways, as the body respon- at HIA once it is fully operational. ters in Abu Hamour is being (Germany) (1600); Manchester City (England) tems. Some companies in Qatar tests conducted by representa- sible for the management and The QCAA and Qatar Airways opened to traffic today. vs AS Roma (Italy) (1845); APOEL Nicosia too are using similar techniques tives of the filter companies. operations of the new airport. had set up joint committees to The flyover aims to ease traf- (Cyprus) vs Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands) to fool customers, say industry “Most companies resort to such QCAA Chairman Abdulaziz study the optimisation for repost- fic flow from Al Thumama (1845); Paris St Germain (France) vs sources. techniques but this particular Mohammed Al Nuaimi and Qatar ing Qatari employee. One of the Roundabout on E Ring Road Barcelona (Spain) (1845); Schalke 04 The experiment is made using experiment is conducted by one Airways Group Chief Executive objectives was to protect their towards the Industrial Area. (Germany) vs Maribor (Slovenia) (1845) an electrode to change the col- company, as we have learned,” he Officer Akbar Al Baker signed rights laid down by the QCAA as The 240 metre metal flyover Sporting (Portugal) vs Chelsea (England) our of water to convince potential said, seeking anonymity. the MoU. In a press statement, well as improving their financial is a temporary solution to traffic (1845); BATE Borisov (Belarus) vs Athletic customers that there are impu- THE PENINSULA the QCAA said that the MoU situation after absorbing in Qatar bottlenecks in the area. Club (Spain) (1845); Shakhtar Donetsk rities in the water they use at Continued on page 5 is a result of four-year effort Airways. QNA THE PENINSULA (Ukraine) vs Porto (Portugal) (1845) TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Deputy PM meets US envoy Minister attends Water demand Afghan president’s inauguration KABUL: The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs to rise 56.5pc H E Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi has participated as representative of the State of Qatar in the inauguration cer- by 2022: Official emony of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Al Rumaihi also congratulated Normal peak demand to be 450MIGD the Prime Minister-designate Dr Abdullah Abdullah and the BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Vice-Presidents. QNA DOHA: The peak water demand in the run-up-to the SESRI to hold 2022 Fifa World Cup is fore- cast to increase up to 482 mil- RasGas survey lion imperial gallons per day (MIGD), including an addi- on community tional demand of 32MIGD for up to three months during the development games, said a senior official of Kahramaa yesterday. DOHA: RasGas has commis- “The normal peak demand sioned the Social and Economic for water for 2022 is about Survey Research Institute 450MIGD and about 32MIGD (SESRI) of Qatar University is expected to be added dur- (QU) to conduct a survey ing the World Cup for up to The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al among communities residing 3 months,” said Abdulmonem Mahmoud met yesterday with US Ambassador Dana Shell Smith. They discussed bilateral relations and a in the northern parts of Qatar Ahmed Al Darwish (pictured), number of issues of common interest. to identify their developmental Manager, Water Operation and at a level similar to the most needs. Control Department at Qatar developed countries, establishing It aims to provide guid- General Electricity and Water smart-grid system and ensuring ance to companies in Ras Corporation (Kahramaa). water supply for emergency situ- Laffan Industrial City on how Al Darwish, however, in an ations are some of the immedi- their resources could be better interview with The Peninsula, ate objectives before the utility Kahramaa plans survey on exploited to support the local said that the amount of 32MIGD distributor. community. is subject to change depending on Asked why Kahramaa was The survey will cover residents data provided by the ‘Supreme building water filling station in Al of mainly the Al Daayen, Al- Khor Committee for Delivery and Wukair at a time when it is plan- water quality, says official and Al Dhakira and Al Shamal Legacy’ (formerly ‘Qatar 2022 ning to phase out water tankers municipalities. The target areas Supreme Committee’). completely, he said: “Tanker fill- DOHA: As part of efforts Laboratory’ developed an inter- such as ‘Water Quality Campaign’. include Sumaisma, Al Khor, Al Currently, Qatar’s daily water ing station at Al Wukair is being to improve services, Qatar nationally competent sampling In addition, Kahramaa has Dhakira, Al Shamal, Al Kaaban, consumption is about 308MIGD, developed as a backup project General Electricity and Water and monitoring plan that covers spearheaded a drive to construct Al Ghuwairia, Al Ghaariya, Al which is expected to increase con- only to be used in case of emer- Corporation (Kahramaa) is water supply from production a contemporary laboratory that Ruwais and Al Zubara. sistently over the next eight years gency situations.” set to conduct a survey to take facilities to the customers points. aims to monitor and deliver It seeks to identify commu- by 56.5 percent. He further noted that the feedback about the quality of As a matter of fact, more than 89 assured potable water that is nity perceptions, awareness and According to reports Qatar has elimination of supply through water distributed to its cus- parameters in 117,000 samples are based on highest drinking water expectations about the RLIC one of the highest rates of per tankers is an important goal for tomers.