Winner of the “MOST OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD” for the 1998 Volume of the “International Journal for Environmental Management and Health”, London, England.

Winner of the first "NATIONAL WATER RESEARCH CENTER AWARD" (1995), (a yearly national award presented by the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works & Water Resources on World Water Day (March 22nd) for best research on "CONVENTIONAL & NON-CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT").

Winner of the "BEST YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD" (1995), for paper presented at the 3rd Nile 2002 conference, Arusha, Tanzania.

Awarded the Thomas Jefferson Scholarship for MSC & PHD degrees at Colorado State University