I am an environmental manager from Iraq, and I live there, in Basra City (by population the second largest city). I hold an M.Sc. degree in the field of Environmental Management (Natural Resource Management) from Queensland University, Australia (2012), and am now completing my PhD at the University of Basra's Marine Science Center (which holds a memorandum of cooperation with the University of South Carolina's School of Earth, Ocean, and Environmental Science). I am interested in the fields of water pollution remediation and water resource protection, focusing on natural, sustainable water treatment methods, such as bioremediation and phytoremediation. My current research tests the effectiveness of constructed wetland systems for treating local wastewater for reuse in agricultural irrigation, fish farming, and release into local rivers. My aim is to help solve one of the most serious issues in Iraq: direct discharge of untreated urban wastewater into our waterways.
