Experts and specialists called for the use of artificial intelligence to enhance efforts to preserve the environment and sustainability.
They assured the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the environmental sector in Jordan faces many challenges in light of the increase in the population and the consequent increase in the volume of waste resulting from daily life, including the depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution, ecosystem degradation, climate change, and lack of natural spaces.
They pointed out that the accumulation of waste is no longer only a matter of cleanliness, but also directly and negatively contributes to environmental pollution and causing serious health, environmental and agricultural damage, unless it is disposed of in safe and new ways.
They added that artificial intelligence techniques, especially machine learning techniques, represent an innovative solution that enhances efforts to preserve the environment and sustainability, indicating that Jordan has made remarkable progress in the field of environmental preservation, and that this progress needs significant development, especially with the massive increase in scientific development in the fields of computer science.
Professor and Professor of Geology, Water, Geophysical Exploration, and Environment, Muhammad Al-Farajat, said that water scarcity, depletion of natural resources, deterioration of the ecosystem, lack of natural spaces represented by drought and lack of rainfall, natural disasters such as fires, floods, and heat waves, in addition to climate change that affects our food security and limits arable areas and fertile lands, are all among the most important repercussions and effects of environmental pollution on the globe.
He added that Jordan is going through a period when signs of global climate change began to appear clearly and clearly, as the rainfall took forms of spatial and temporal distribution that are completely different from the annual rates of the past decades, as it became concentrated in one region without the other.
He pointed out that the temporal nature of precipitation tends to lag behind September and October, as precipitation shifts towards the warmer period, which reduces the chances of vegetative growth, underground charging and soil enrichment with water.
He added that evaporation consumes a good part of the water, which constitutes a clear challenge to agricultural production, green cover, public health, environmental safety and biodiversity, in addition to the lack of groundwater renewal and the improvement of its quality, which is a major and almost the only source of drinking in the Kingdom.
Al-Farajat explained that the shrinking agricultural areas, the decrease in groundwater recharge, the low quality of groundwater, and the risk of sudden floods pose threats to the region, including the Kingdom, due to the rapid climate change, the main cause of which is environmental pollution.
He stressed that solutions and innovations with technology, artificial intelligence and new industries are required, calling for the development of applied scientific research and its leadership in this direction and dealing with it with methodology, strategies and plans.
For his part, the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science at Yarmouk University, Prof. Qasim Al-Radaydah, said that artificial intelligence technologies can play an important role in preserving the environment and in improving production and industrial processes in various ways in Jordan. Solid waste can be managed through the use of smart systems based on waste containers equipped with sensors to monitor the level of filling and direct scheduling of waste collection effectively and improve the efficiency of recycling operations.
Dr. Al-Radaydah, who is also a specialist in data science and artificial intelligence, pointed out the possibility of using robots to clean the environment or collect waste and make it free from any danger, indicating that the robots are equipped with advanced sensors and artificial intelligence that enable them to identify and collect waste effectively and accurately, which contributes to improving environmental cleanliness and reducing pollution.
He added that the robots are equipped with sensors and sensors such as air gauges, water quality monitors, harmful gas levels, or pollutant concentration analysis in water, by providing accurate data to observers and concerned authorities to take appropriate measures to reduce pollution.
He emphasized that flying robots that are equipped with advanced firefighting systems and are capable of early detection and extinguishing fires, maintaining public safety and reducing environmental pollution, in addition to artificial intelligence technologies, can be used to protect the marine environment, so that smart systems are applied that use environmental monitoring data and smart analysis to help monitor marine pollution and direct efforts to preserve the marine environment and endangered marine species.
He added that there is a set of technologies that can be implemented in the field of improving water management, so that smart systems are applied that use sensors to monitor water consumption and analyze associated data, then this data is used to determine consumption pattern, improve water use efficiency, and detect any leaks or waste.
In turn, Dr. Khaled Al-Nawasra, a specialist in artificial intelligence and its applications, pointed out that despite the great benefits of using artificial intelligence technologies in preserving the environment in Jordan, there are some challenges facing the process of adopting them, such as technical and economic challenges that include the development of smart systems and the availability of sufficient and accurate data, in addition to the cost of implementation and the impact on the labor market and local and international legislation.
— (Petra)