Dr. Hillel Shuval
Hillel Shuval has an undergraduate degree in water resources and environmental engineering from Cornell University, and a graduate degree in Environmental Health and Engineering from the University of Michigan. After his tenure as the Chief Environmental Health Engineer for the new State of Israel, he was appointed Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded the Division of Environmental Sciences at the Freddy and Nadine Herrmann School Of Applied Science. His academic career has seen him participate as a visiting professor at MIT, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University; he is currently serving as a visiting Professor at the International Academy of the Environment in Geneva.
As an international
environmental engineering and water resources expert, Professor Hillel has
advised: agencies of the United Nations (including the World Health Organization
and the United Nations Environment Program); an array of government bodies
(including the European Union); the World Bank; and other important
organizations (such as US AID). His engineering consultancy work has taken him
to Chile, Peru, India, Australia, Egypt, France, Switzerland, the United States
of America, and the People's Republic of China.
In recognition of his
excellent contribution to promoting environmental quality in Israel, including
a campaign to safeguard and conserve underground aquifers, he was awarded
Israel’s Environmental Quality Award in 1988. After serving as co-chairman for
the first Israeli-Palestinian international academic conference on water in
1992, he has since participated in joint research projects with Egyptian, Palestinian
and Jordanian water scientists on transboundary environmental problems, and
studies on resolving water conflicts in the Middle East.
Professor Shuval’s
professional affiliations are both national and international in scope, and
reflect his being held in high esteem by his peers:
·
The American Academy of Environmental Engineers
(Diplomat)
·
The American Public Health Association (Fellow)
·
The International Water Quality Association
(past Vice-President)
·
The Israel Ecological
Association (past Chair)
·
The Israel chapter of the
International Water Resources Association (Chair)
Hillel’s areas of
research include water quality, water disinfection, waterborne viral pathogens,
marine pollution, low cost wastewater treatment, wastewater recycling and
reuse, global water resources planning and management, and resolution of Middle
East water conflicts. He has published extensively (over 200 papers), and some
of these are available online:
·
A
Reevaluation of Conventional Wisdom on Water Security, Food Security, and Water
Stress in Arid Countries in the Middle East” can be found on the net at the
site of Green Cross International, the
international environmental NGO that holds general consultative status with the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
·
The Water Issues on the Jordan River Basin between Israel, Syria and
Lebanon can be a Motivation for Peace and Regional Cooperation can
be found within the pages of an online Green Cross International publication
entitled Water for Peace in the Middle East and Southern Africa.
·
Wastewater
recycling and reuse as a water resource for Mediterranean countries: hygienic
and technological aspects was a presentation given at the
IIème Conférence
Méditerranéenne sur l'Eau in Rome.
Other readings
of interest for today’s presentation include "Don't
ask us to be quiet when we are thirsty!", and more can be found online at the Directory of
Selected Palestinian Water-related Publications.
(Referenced online at http://web243.petrel.ch/GreenCrossPrograms/waterres/middleeast/shuval.html, 2/8/01)
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