UT Professor’s Book Published by IWA

According to UT College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr. Omid Bozorg Haddad’s Water Resources: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts, and Necessities was released by the International Water Association (IWA). The book’s description reads as follows:

“Nowadays, novel water resources management strategies have been developed and applied by borrowing new concepts to overcome the water shortage crisis and balance the distribution of water resources.

Therefore, this book has been categorized in four main sections as follows. 1- Perspective, which consists of Climate change, New water resources, Inter-basin water transfer, Nanotechnology, Best management practices by low impact development strategies, Land use, Land planning, and Overland production . 2- Challenges, which consists of Water and sustainable development and Comprehensive and integrated water management . 3- Concepts, which consists of Virtual water, Water footprint, and Water-Food-Energy-Environment nexus chapters, and 4- Necessities, which consists of Water security, Food security, Inactive (passive) defense, Water conflicts and water war, Forensic engineering, and Citizen sciences chapters.

It should be added that all of these concepts have been integrated into this unique reference, which can help students, academics, practitioners, and professors who are interested to know more about the new concepts in water resources”.