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Dr. Shalamu Abudu is a Professor, Associate Director at Xinjiang Institute of Water Resources Research. His areas of expertise include hydrology, irrigation and drainage engineering. He has over twenty years of experience in efficient use of water in agriculture; design, construction and management of traditional and advanced irrigation systems. He received his Ph.D degree from New Mexico State University, USA and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Hohai University, China.
The water harvesting and underground transmission system called a karez in the Uygur language, or kan er jing in Mandarin, has provided sustainable water supplies in some communities of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), China for over 2,000 years. These water systems have also been used in countries in North Africa and West Asia, as well as other Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
