Dubai Municipality is soon planning to launch its smart waterway clean-up boat which will clear waterborne rubbish and will be named "Waste Shark". It is a remote-controlled, autonomous vehicle with dynamic sensors and a smart camera that tracks floating debris and removes them, said Abdul Majeed Abdul Azeez Al Saifaie, director of the Waste Management Department of the Municipality

It is an environmentally friendly, electrically operated machine. The municipality will deploy modern techniques and equipment based on artificial intelligence for water purification of the channels.

The Waste Management Department will keep the various waterways in Dubai, clean and sustainable, including Dubai Creek, Al Jaddaf Creek, Dubai Water Canal, Business Bay Canal, expansions and new waterways like the fish market waterfront and the Deira harbor canal which are the prime tourist, economic and historic attractions.

In 2017, nearly 1,070 tonnes of waste was removed from these waterways. This included wood, plastic bags, food wastes, algae, seaweed, shipwrecks, oil residues and waste from the projects being done on the banks of the waterways.

Since 2010, the Waterways Cleaning Unit of the Waste Management Department has implemented a number of initiatives and campaigns; these resulted in the recovery of about 30 tonnes of benthic waste and the lifting and transfer of 63 neglected and sunken ships, which otherwise pose navigational danger to water channels.