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Under the auspices of Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, and the supervision of Dr. Essam Wahba, Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for Water and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Dr. Dina El-Gayar, Deputy Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for Water, the Center of Excellence for Water at Alexandria University, in cooperation with the Arab Water Council, organized a workshop entitled “Water-Energy-Food Nexus”.
The event took place in the presence of Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, former Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources and President of the Arab Water Council, Dr. Hussein El-Atef, former Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources and Secretary-General of the Arab Water Council, Engineer Sherif Haddara, former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Engineer Abed Ezz El-Regal, Chairman and Managing Director of Abu Qir Fertilizers and Chemical Industries Company, Dr. Walid Abdelazim, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Ms. Jenan Omar, Project Management Specialist at the United States Agency for International Development, Dr. Essam Shaaban, Project Manager at the American University in Cairo, and representatives of partner Egyptian universities.
The workshop aimed to deepen the comprehensive understanding of the interrelationship between these three resources (water, energy and food), highlight the challenges they face, and propose sustainable solutions, and the latest developments in this field, exchanging creative ideas, and enhancing cooperation between industry and academic institutions.
The workshop was attended by a group of elite experts and academics, who presented various lectures that shed light on enhancing the integration of water, energy and food, and the existence of sustainable solutions to current challenges, in the presence of representatives from the industrial sector and research institutions.
