On November 9, Dr. Ali Fares, associate director of Research and professor of Water Security in Prairie View A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, and his colleagues, received the 2017 National Water and Energy Conservation Award at the annual meeting of the Irrigation Association in Orlando, Florida. Fares is representing PVAMU on the USDA-NIFA multi-state five-year research project W-3128, “Scaling Microirrigation Technologies to Address the Global Water Challenge,” which involves scientists from 20 major land-grant universities and two federal agencies.
“The Irrigation Association, through this national award, honors projects that show significant achievement in the conservation of water and energy relating to irrigation procedures, equipment, methods, and techniques,” said Fares. “My plan is to help more CARC [Cooperative Agriculture Research Center] scientists serve on other multi-state projects so they will interact and collaborate with their top peers in other land-grant institutions and present their findings to Texans with primarily limited resources, diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.”