Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, officially inaugurated the Dubai Water Canal, a 12 kilometre waterway that connects Dubai Creek with the Arabian Gulf.
The Dubai Water Canal project has been built at a cost of $1 billion, WAM has reported.
Sheikh Mohammed praised the professionalism demonstrated in the implementation of the project and dubbed it the new landmark in modern Dubai.
The celebrations featured an aerial show inspired by the UAE’s heritage against the backdrop of a water fountain themed: A Million Drops Make the Oceans.
This was followed by the screening of a movie titled ‘Dubai Water Canal, the New Face of Dubai’. The film spotlighted the canal project, which is a culmination of the dream of the father of modern Dubai, HH Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, to deepen the Dubai Creek in 1959 to facilitate marine navigation.
The project also includes the construction of five footbridges featuring distinctive designs. Construction works on the Canal project were completed on 27 October 2016, following which water flowed through the canal, effectively linking Business Bay with the Arabian Gulf.