New appointment

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the appointment of Professor Ishaq, as an Honorary Consultant to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. Dr. Ishaq has been a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Michigan State University, in East Lansing, USA and prestigious King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, for the past 35 years.

Previously Professor Ishaq had served government of Sri Lanka, with the Survey and Irrigation Department. He had also served as an Honorary Consultant to the Ministry of Ports and Shipping. He has also served in the international arena as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the United Nations and to numerous agencies in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

In Saudi Arabia, Professor Isahaq has been the principal investigator of several funded research projects related to the enhancement of water supply in the Kingdom in particular and the Middle East in general. This includes the award winning project entitled, "Waste-water Re-charge to enhance water supply in Saudi Arabia".

Professor Ishaq is expected to lend his expertise to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, in the areas of automation of data acquisition, an early warning system for disaster prevention, and groundwater contamination.