{"id":38006,"date":"2025-07-28T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/?page_id=38006"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:34:32","slug":"fourth-scientific-symposium-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/fourth-scientific-symposium-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Scientific Symposium \u2013 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Symposium Date:<\/strong> May 10, 2011<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Preparatory Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asst.\u202fProf.\u202fSalim Qasim Al\u2011Naqeeb \u2014 Chairperson<\/li>\n<li>Dr.\u202fAdel Ali\u202fBilal \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Dr.\u202fNabeel Hameed Al\u2011Sayegh \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Dr.\u202fQutaiba\u202fTawfiq Al\u2011Yuzbakey \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Dr.\u202fKhalil Ibrahim Othman \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Mr.\u202fThair Mahmood Al\u2011Taiee \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Mr.\u202fYa\u2019rub Ibrahim Suleiman \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<li>Eng.\u202fNidal Abdul\u2011Hadi\u202fMohammed \u2014 Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Scientific Session:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Theme:<\/strong> \u201cInvestment\u2011Oriented Research Topics for the Center\u201d<br \/>\nCenter Director Prof.\u202fSalim Qasim Al\u2011Naqeeb opened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs we mark our twenty\u2011fifth anniversary, we must channel our scientific and practical expertise toward projects that serve society\u2014especially amid acute water scarcity and quality decline across the Middle East and the Arab world. Let us leverage our accumulated knowledge in aquifer exploration, water harvesting, and dam construction to propose priority studies that address urgent needs: potable\u2011water supply in arid areas of Nineveh, groundwater mapping, rainwater\u2011harvesting schemes, and more. These efforts, in partnership with public agencies and investors, will lay the foundation for strategic, needs\u2011driven research\u2014and deliver real benefits to our communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Session Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reactivate and complete the Badush Dam project given its strategic importance.<\/li>\n<li>Construct the concrete cutoff wall at Mosul Dam, as repeatedly recommended in prior conferences and symposia.<\/li>\n<li>To combat desertification and preserve farmland, intensify sustainable groundwater use across Nineveh\u2014conducting quantitative, qualitative, and spatial assessments of aquifers to guide municipal and agricultural water use; this effort requires dedicated government funding.<\/li>\n<li>Build small dams on seasonal wadis in western Nineveh\u2014where flash floods occur\u2014rather than large dams that face site, time, and cost constraints.<\/li>\n<li>Reevaluate the proposed series of small dams on the Tigris from Mosul downstream to Sherqat for water management and hydropower\u2014leveraging existing preliminary studies within the Ministry of Water Resources.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen University\u2013state agency cooperation by:\n<ul>\n<li>Holding biannual meetings between relevant academic departments and beneficiary agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Instituting targeted secondments of new researchers and faculty to government water\u2011resource bodies (for six\u2011 to twelve\u2011month practical training).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Undertake joint geological, hydrogeological, and engineering studies (by the Ministry of Water Resources and the University of Mosul) of the traditional qanat (kariz) systems extending south of Mount Sinjar into the Jazira region\u2014to assess, rehabilitate, and utilize them for drinking water and, potentially, agricultural and livestock watering\u2014and explore constructing new qanats in the Jazira.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symposium Date: May 10, 2011 Preparatory Committee: Asst.\u202fProf.\u202fSalim Qasim Al\u2011Naqeeb \u2014 Chairperson Dr.\u202fAdel Ali\u202fBilal \u2014 Member Dr.\u202fNabeel Hameed Al\u2011Sayegh \u2014 Member Dr.\u202fQutaiba\u202fTawfiq Al\u2011Yuzbakey \u2014 Member Dr.\u202fKhalil Ibrahim Othman \u2014 Member Mr.\u202fThair Mahmood Al\u2011Taiee \u2014 Member Mr.\u202fYa\u2019rub Ibrahim Suleiman \u2014 Member Eng.\u202fNidal Abdul\u2011Hadi\u202fMohammed \u2014 Member Scientific Session: Theme: \u201cInvestment\u2011Oriented Research Topics for the Center\u201d Center Director Prof.\u202fSalim Qasim Al\u2011Naqeeb opened: \u201cAs we mark our twenty\u2011fifth anniversary, we must channel our scientific and practical expertise toward projects that serve society\u2014especially amid acute water scarcity and quality decline across the Middle East and the Arab world. Let us leverage our accumulated knowledge in aquifer <a href=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/fourth-scientific-symposium-2011\/\"> [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38009,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38006\/revisions\/38009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/watercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}