The Department of Dams and Water Resources Engineering and within the scientific activities «second semester» for the 2020/199 held a “virtual” scientific symposium using Google Hangouts Meet technologies under the title: -

Water scarcity and the role of modern technologies in water management in Anbar Governorate

on Thursday 16/4/2020. This symposium aims to focus on the concepts of management and planning of water resources and facing challenges in Anbar province and the possibility of exploiting the available quantities of monsoon floods resulting from the rain fall on the region and making strategic plans to develop the region through the optimal exploitation of surface and underground water resources to achieve sustainable development aimed at providing living requirements The generous to the people of the region and meet their domestic and agricultural needs of water and in a scientific and thoughtful manner.

The seminar's committee consisted of the following:

Dr. Abdul Qadir Ismail Al-Hadithi

Dr. Rafid Saadoud Rashid

Researches discussed in the symposium: -

- Optimal management of water resources and facing challenges ,,, lecturer, a. M . Dr. Juma Awad Hamad ,,, a. M . Dr. Ammar Hatem Kamel.

- Water Administration in Anbar Province for the two seasons of Al-Sheh and Flood 2020/2019 ,, Lecturer, Engineer Ayad Abdulaziz Al-Rawi, Director of Water Resources in Anbar.

-  Administration of the two small dam reservoirs ,, lecturer a. Dr. Essam Mohamed Abdel Hamid, director of the Euphrates Basin Research Center.

 - Investigating locations that are misleading with water harvesting by using remote sensing and geographic information systems ,,, records a. M . Dr. Khamis Nabaa Sail.

The symposium came out with a set of recommendations, including:

1-     The necessity of conducting an extensive study of the answer to and the seasonal valley basins in the Western Desert as part of a broad plan for the development of the region, whether related to providing renewable sources of surface and ground water through water harvesting projects necessary for agriculture and grazing or related to providing clean and cheap energy sources to operate pumps to transfer water to Broader areas in the region through increasing green areas, improving the environment and reducing the effects of dust storms.

2-    Setting an agricultural plan for Anbar province on the basis of the available water share and other sources such as water harvesting projects, including groundwater, which must be calculated and estimated accurately, using modern irrigation methods and avoiding waste.

3-    The necessity of establishing permanent monitoring and measurement stations on the valleys and small dam lakes for the purpose of knowing the true size of the annual water imports and adopting these data to prepare a comprehensive plan for investing these imports, which would raise the standard of living for the people of these areas and reduce desertification.

4-    Carrying out comprehensive studies to evaluate and analyze the groundwater for wells in the Iraqi Western Desert and show the extent of the viability of these wells for agricultural use in the light of international standards and work to bring in local and international specialized agricultural companies and thus create job opportunities for the people of the province and work on self-sufficiency in agricultural production.