Seminar on managing demand for water (continue)

We have talked in an earlier post about the seminar organized by the Sultanate. It was a two day seminar which ended last Thursday.

This was what the Times of Oman had to say about the conclusion of the seminar and the results.

A number of working papers were covered yesterday including by Eng. Zahir
bin Khalid Al Sulaimani, director-general of water resources assessment at the
Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources on water
status and sanitary water treatment in the Sultanate of Oman. Dr Shawki Al
Barghouti of UAE delivered a paper on water quality and management. Dr Saleem
Zikri of Sultan Qaboos University delivered a working paper on management demand
for underground water whereas both Professor Linus and Khailfa Al Hinaie of SQU
delivered a paper on the use of automatic control in developing management of
water supply for agricultural sector in the Sultanate.

It is worth mentioning that water experts, consultants and academics taking
part at the seminar came out with valuable proposals that will help in
maintaining a balance between supply and demand and provide solutions for water
related problems facing a number of countries as a result for high demand for
water in tourism seasons.

So we are making progress and that's good. Let's hope to see some action and not just talk.