Higher Education Capacity Building in Water Resources Engineering and Management to Support Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for Water in Pakistan

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Advanced Studies in Water at the University of Utah. He also serves as the Associate Director for the Global Change and Sustainability Center at the University of Utah where he facilitates interdisciplinary sustainability research initiatives. His research group has contributed new approaches for designing urban water infrastructure, innovative urban databases and water modeling techniques, sustainable solutions for distributed water-energy-food systems in cities, and practical adaptation strategies for water managers facing aging infrastructure, climate change, and other challenges. This research has been funded by NSF, EPA, NASA, DOD, DOE, USAID, National Labs, State Departments of Transportation, and Industry in the U.S. and several countries. More than 75 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications, 100 conference papers and project reports, and several software packages and databases have been produced from this research. Dr. Burian's enthusiasm for student learning has led to numerous teaching awards and the creation of new pedagogical approaches directed toward multi-institution collaborative learning. He has also sought to advance teaching effectiveness of engineering educators by serving as mentor at the American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Workshop and as the developer of a variety of teaching and curriculum development workshops, including the recent Wasatch Experience at the University of Utah.Dr. Mercedes Ward, University of Utah Prof. Tariq J. Banuri, University of Utah Prof. Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Ahmad is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His teaching and research interests are in the area of sustainable planning and management of water resources, water-energy nexus, and stormwater management . He is particularly interested in using systems approach to address water sustainability issues. Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar, Mehran University, PakistanHe is a working as Professor in U.S. Governance, Gender Equity, and Sustainability. This paper describes the project, the activities for each component, and the multi-level assessment of the program, activities, and impact. The paper also highlights the overarching impact of the program and its alignment with achieving the Sustainable Development Goal for Water. Following the description of the program components and assessment, the paper concludes with a discussion of challenges and lessons learned.

Constraining Mountain Streamflow Constituents by Integrating Citizen Scientist Acquired Geochemical Samples and Sentinel‐1 SAR Wet Snow Time‐Series for the Shimshal Catchment in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan

“…In a collaborative effort to better understand the streamflow dynamics in the UIB, a small team of researchers was gathered by the US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water, a USAID-backed center of excellence established at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology in Pakistan, in partnership with the University of Utah in the United States, to address water sustainability in Pakistan (Burian et al, 2016(Burian et al, , 2017. The group was hosted by Karakoram International University (KIU) in Gilgit, and traveled together to Shimshal valley, meeting with local citizen scientists in October 2018.…”

USAID: Investing in Primary Education for the Sustainable Development of Pakistan

“…USAID educational assistance programs aims to provide education to children affected by military conflicts through increasing enrolment rates in primary schools and initiating non-formal education system in marginalized areas (Alderman and Chishti, 2004). Pakistan received a total of 75.6 million dollars from USAID in 2016 for basic primary education and post-secondary education in the form of foreign assistance (Burian et al, 2017). USAID's Education Programs in Pakistan aim to deliver high quality education for sustainable development of the country.…”