The researchers at university of Basrah published a scientific research at a global journal

Dr. Alaa Jabbar Al-Manhal, Dr. Asaad Rahman Al-Hilfi and Dr. Alaa Karim Naima the academics at faculty of Agriculture at university of Basrah published their tagged research (Extraction of kitosan from shrimp husks and its use in drinking water purification) in Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences, which published by Elsevier publishing store and Science Direct within the SCOPUS classification.

Zenia Tariq the academic at the faculty said they could during their research extract kytosan from shrimp husks and use it to purify drinking water and study its physical, chemical and microbial properties, pointing out that the CITE SCORE for the magazine is 2.37.