Integrated management and sustainable development of water resources in Anbar Governorate

The Department of Dams and Water Resources Engineering at the College of Engineering, in cooperation with the Upper Euphrates Basin Development Center and the Water Resources Directorate in Anbar Governorate, held a scientific symposium titled "integrated management and sustainable development of water resources in Anbar Governorate".

The symposium included several themes, namely the optimal management of multiple water sources to supply drinking water distribution networks in desert cities, the challenges facing Iraq as a result of low water revenues from riparian countries, ways to rationalize water consumption, and the development of a water management system -energy- to support sustainable development in Anbar Governorate and the management of irrigation projects in addition to the possibility of using land drainage for agricultural purposes.

The symposium aims to focus on the concepts of management and planning for water resources, facing challenges in Anbar Governorate, the possibility of exploiting the available quantities of seasonal torrents resulting from rains falling on the region, and making strategic plans to develop the region through optimal exploitation of surface and groundwater resources to achieve sustainable development aimed at providing the requirements for a decent living for the people of the region and to meet their domestic and agricultural needs of water in a scientific and thoughtful manner.