It’s not often that you manage to gather industry, government, academia, and the public in one room to tackle a tough issue. In this case, that issue was industrial wastewater, the management of which presents a major challenge in Pakistan for the Indus River Basin’s local ecosystems and drinking water quality. Organized by the U.S.-Pakistan […]
Read MoreSeveral University of Utah faculty recently participated in the launch of a new institute for advanced studies and university in Pakistan positioned to serve as “an apex institution designed to support research-based policy formulation.” During the December 2018 conference, titled “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for Pakistan,” Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the creation of Islamabad […]
Read Moreoriginally posted in @theu on July 16, 2018 By Cecily Sakrison, communications specialist, The Water Center at the University of Utah From Mason Kreidler’s campus office you can see Mount Olympus wedging its way into the sky. The mountain view calls to mind the six canyons in his Salt Lake watershed study area—deep clefts that […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Professor Tariq Banuri has been appointed chairman of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission. Banuri moves into the role from his positions as an economics professor and associate director of the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Water at the U. He also serves on the executive committee of the U Water Center. The […]
Read More“It is time to get past the talking, and onto the doing.” This one simple sentence summarizes the life’s work of Dr. M. Aslam Chaudhry. For a quarter century Dr. Chaudhry worked on the front lines of international sustainable development for the United Nations. His posts read like a map of the world’s crisis zones […]
Read MoreBeyond a largely arid landscape whose agriculture and livelihood depends on the runoff of high mountains, the Colorado and Indus River basins are also faced with similar mounting problems of over allocation, salinization caused by irrigation, mounting conflicts over water rights, and the rising specter of climate change. University of Utah professor Dan McCool recently […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah was honored to receive a delegation led by Mr. Hazar Khan Bijarani, Minister of Planning and Development for Pakistan’s Sindh province. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen the partnership between the U and Pakistan’s Mehran University of Engineering and Technology that began in 2015 when the two universities joined […]
Read MoreWhat value do people place on water? What are the attributes that influence those judgments, and what effect do they have on public policy in the developing world? These questions have been driving the research of University of Utah graduate student and USPCASW research assistant Matt Kosko. “Institutions and the Willingness to Pay for Water […]
Read MoreIn May, team members from the U.S. travelled to Mehran University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan for a series of workshops. The theme for the mission was “Innovation for Impact.” Building on this theme, the team worked to more deeply engage MUET faculty, students, and stakeholders in a collaborative process. Workshop instructor teams included […]
Read MoreKhawar Mumtaz is the type of person who when faced with injustice knew she had to do something to confront it. The 1970s in Pakistan were a particularly dark time in a country who has had its share of dark times. The politics of authoritarianism and repression were on the rise and the rights of […]
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