Water Research Group

The water research group (WRG) will focus on basic and applied water research by securing exchange and cooperation among researchers from different scientific disciplinaries who have interest in water resources issues. The WRG will be hosted by the Civil Engineering Departmentat KFUPM Universityhas qualified and expert faculty in the area of water resources. In addition, the department is offering a graduate program related to "water resources and environmental engineering" and has well-equipped and advanced laboratories that can help researchers conduct advanced and high quality research which will enhance and strengthen the activities that will be undertaken by the proposed WRG. 

The WRG is proposed because water is a scarce and precious resource in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Population growth, rising living standards and urbanization increase the pressure on available water resources, creating imbalance between water supply and demand. To avert water crisis in the Kingdom, efficient management of our water resources is recommended. Thus, there is an enormous need to establish the proposed research group to research, develop, adopt and transfer technologies and methodologies to ensure efficient and sustainable water management. In addition, the arid condition of the Kingdom as well as the existence of different sources of water supplies and water demand variability, makes the water resources systems of the Kingdom a unique condition where new methodologies and management systems might be developed which will generate new ideas that will contribute to and enrich the area of scientific research world wide.

​The WRG will focus on different areas of research of importance to the water resources in Saudi Arabia which include the following:

• Hydrology and hydraulics of arid regions
• Computational hydraulics
• Hydrological modeling
• Water distribution modeling
• Water resource systems optimization
• Climate change impacts on water resources
• Developing decision support systems for water supply planning and management
• Flow and contaminant transport in groundwater systems; groundwater remediation and groundwater recharge
• Water conservation
• Water reuse
• System analysis application in water resources
• Integrated water resource management
• GIS applications in water resources 

In addition, one of the major goals of the WRG is to provide high quality, well trained and informed professionals as future experts in the area of water resources through an extensive graduate program.

Group Members

	Dr. Mohammad Al-Zahrani (Group Coordinator)
	Dr. Mohammad Hussein Eisa (CE)
	Dr. Mohammad Shariq Vohra (CE)
	Dr. Mohammad Saleh Al-Suwaiyan (CE)
	Dr. Mohammad Makkawi (Earth Sci)
	Mr. Amin Ali Abo Monasar (Student)
	Dr. Rajai Al-Assar (Math)
	Mr. Mohammad M. Rahman (CE)

 For more information, contact the group co-ordinator at wrg@kfupm.edu.sa .