Book: Haie, Naim (2021) Transparent Water Management Theory: Sefficiency in Sequity. Springer. Front Matter, Back Matter, FAQ (Note: US National Institutes of Health selected Chapter 4 of the book and made it freely available at PubMed Central )
Interests and Major Works
His current research interests include water equity, efficiency, management, security, and adaptation to uncertainties such as climate change.
He has developed a new sustainable equity (Sequity) framework that integrates water equality, conservation and sustainable efficiency (Sefficiency), and guides water management in elimiting both water poverty and water excess. His new book "Sefficiency in Sequity" gives a logical and systemic proof that to attain sustainable water management / security, water supply & demand should comprehensively follow Sequity.
He has developed systemic and comprehensive performance indicators based on a universal principle integrating the differentials of water quantity, water pollution, and water benefit that reveal their trade-offs at multi-levels with climate and energy descriptors and stakeholder enablers. This is called water Sefficiency with three levels Macro, Meso and Micro-efficiencies (3ME). (for a Sefficiency template, see my 2016 paper)
He has pioneered hyperspace research of the internal behavior of various methods of computing reference evapotranspiration, such as, FAO Penman-Monteith and Hargreaves-Samani. His team developed a software that can reveal the complex non-linear patterns of these hyperspaces.
His team was actively involved in the final approval of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive in 2000, one of the most important legal water instruments for EU countries and beyond.
He was the first to develop a hydrodynamic model of (surged) irrigation using an Eulerian system. It formed the basis of wide spread computer programs and research.
He has been involved in projects in Asia, Americas and Europe, UNESCO; Editorial Board member, International Journal of Water Resources Development (IJWRD); ex-Vice-President, IWRA.org, Paris, France; Erasmus Academic Coordinator; (co)supervisor of 8 Ph.D. and 27 M.Sc. students.