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MENA NWC Update
Awards to Water Innovation Fellows Finalized
MENA NWC has finalized awards to several Water Innovation Fellows. Fellows must be citizens
and residents of a MENA country and full-time employees of an institution or entity based in MENA.
They must also be working collaboratively with a sponsoring Network Center to implement the
research. For more information about the program and funding opportunities, please contact the
WIF Grants Manager at [email protected].
MENA NWC Fellow
Research Project Title and Synopsis
MENA NWC Grantee
Hicham Hajji
Hassan II Institute of
Agronomy and Veterinary
Science
BIG Data for Water Management: Develop
new methods for collecting large volumes of
structured and unstructured data and for
prototyping a new methodology to analyze
and process data more efficiently.
Hassan II Institute of
Agronomy and Veterinary
Science, Morocco
El Houssine Bartali
Hassan II Institute of
Agronomy and Veterinary
Science
Urban Wastewater Systems and Climate
Change: Assess flood vulnerability and
identify appropriate adaptation and pre-flood
measures of sewerage infrastructure in two
Moroccan cities.
Hassan II Institute of
Agronomy and Veterinary
Science, Morocco
Dalila Loudyi
University Hassan II
Mohammedia-Casablanca
Rana Munkith Al-Jaibaji
Madian for Smart Green
Buildings
Shehdeh Jodeh
An Najah University
Purification of Groundwater from Heavy
Toxic Metals: Implement and test a new
approach to removing toxic materials from
groundwater.
An Najah University,
West Bank
Abdel Fattah R. Hasan
An Najah University
Treatment of Secondary Effluents: Develop
and test a simple and affordable self-cleaning
advanced-treatment filter to treat secondary
effluents.
An Najah University,
West Bank
Hirich Abdelaziz
International Center for
Biosaline Agriculture
For more information on
MENA NWC, contact:
Promoting Eco-Restaurants in Remote
Royal Scientific Society,
Areas: Test and demonstrate a high-tech grey Jordan
water reuse system to reduce and reuse the
high volume of water large hotels and
restaurants use for services and landscaping.
Reflectance Sensing in Precision Irrigation International Center for
Management and Scheduling: Produce a
Biosaline Agriculture,
new precision irrigation scheduling method,
United Arab Emirates
using reflectance sensors, that will result in an
irrigation support tool for farmers operating in
arid climates.
Economical Separation of Soluble Phenolic Jordan University of Science
Muna Abu Dalo,
Jordan University of Science Compounds from Olive Mill Wastewater:
and Technology, Jordan
and Technology
Develop an environmentally friendly and costeffective surface active medium for the
University of Jordan, Jordan
Abeer Al Bawab
express purpose of sequestering organic and
University of Jordan
phenolic compounds from olive mill
wastewater.
Richard Pollard
Interim Executive
Director
+ 1 301 771 7563
[email protected] Mashor Housh
University of Haifa
John Wilson
Bureau for the Middle
East USAID
+ 1 202 712 4633
[email protected]
www.menanwc.org
Multi-Site Event Detection System for
Water Distribution Systems
Contamination: Develop a multi-site event
detection system that will reduce false alarms
and enhance the detectability of true
contamination events in public water
distribution systems.
Technion Research and
Development Foundation,
Israel
Khaled Rafiq Asfar
Water Saving Toilet Flushing System:
Jordan University of Science
Jordan University of Science Develop a flush system that uses only one liter and Technology, Jordan
and Technology
per flush, cutting liters per flush by 75% when
compared with other low-flush technologies.