Abbas Al-Jowi, an Iraqi student majoring in "Engineering of Water Resources Management" at the doctoral level, successfully defended his dissertation and obtained a doctoral degree in this field. " Application of Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model of the Al- Ghraaf River  for Evaluatting  the Impact of Upstream Dam Construction " was the title of "Abbas Al-jowi's" dissertation which was supervised by Dr. Hamidreza Ghafouri, an academic member of Civil Engineering Department, Dr. Mahmoud Azizipour, an academic  member of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Riyaz Abboud Yasser (Al-Khafaji) from Thi-Qar University, Iraq.