IWMI Africa appoints new director

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The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has appointed a new Director for its regional Africa office. Headquartered in Sri Lanka, IWMI is a non-scientific research organisation specialising in water use in agriculture and integrated management of water and land resources. New Director for Africa Dr Akiça Bahri has been working for the National Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Water and Forestry in her home country T unisia where she was in charge of research management in the field of agricultural water use. Her particular field of interest is agricultural use of marginal water (brackish and wastewater) as well as sewage sludge, and their impacts on the environment. She holds degrees in agricultural engineering from the National Polytechnical Institute of T oulouse, France, and a PhD from the Department of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, in Sweden.

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