Even though there is an increase in the consumption of groundwater by farmers in Saudi Arabia, there is no control management offered to the farmer by the government. The lack of metered control by the government will result in groundwater becoming nonexistent. There will be no water for drinking, plants or animals. A lot of farmers grow alfalfa and the government allows them to export alfalfa out of the country. Alfalfa uses most of the water resources. An important issue is the lack of knowledge and carelessness by the government, which indicates that the government is not holding itself accountable for the depletion of groundwater. Also, there are some farmers who have power to create lakes on their land using the groundwater. Upon depletion of the groundwater, employers and the national income suffers.

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In Saudi Arabia the wait at a Civil Affairs office (Figure 1 ), the equivalent of the U.S. Department of Motor Vehicles, can reach up to several hours these days. Visitors must plan to surrender their mornings or afternoons in order to attend to their Civil Affairs business. Something urgently needs to be done about this. A more efficient and effective system is needed. The solution might be an online computerized approach which allows visitors to address their needs directly. This approach would ensure legitimacy and credibility while meeting obligations to the Civil Affairs. The system would allow input from, and responses to, the Civil Affairs office. The system being considered has · six parts that interact electronically to rapidly process customer requests and direct the requests to the most appropriate destinations. This six-part concept will be an improvement over the greatly challenged, outdated system that has plagued the Saudi Kingdom for too long. The whole process, from beginning to end, will take only a few hours. However, the system will certainly be better than waiting in line for three or four hours. The system does not require the user to take time off from work, neglecting one's children, nor even leave one's home. The system is fully automated and will appreciably lessen work loads.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of an effective risk management process in systems engineering. No engineering project, organization, or entity can be successful without a robust risk avoidance plan in place. Traditionally, it has been taught that risk management and mitigation serve as a plan, process, or series of steps to avoid negative consequences. In complex organizations or projects, risk management is a large function of the system. Therefore, it is of high importance that the organization to uses this function most effectively and efficiently. To be most effective, risk management should be considered as something beyond the avoidance of loss or negative consequences. The author of this paper makes the following recommendation: systems engineers should consider risk management as a means to create value and minimize waste. This is an inherently Lean approach, and the approach should be used to balance opportunities and failure. The author of this paper will show this principle to be of high value through case studies of well-known past programs. The document will examine the successes and failures of each and how effectively risk management was applied. Furthermore, it will demonstrate how the risk management team was or was not able to balance opportunity and failure, consequently creating either value or waste.

Business Permit System is known as an inefficient system because it is purely bureaucratic and the transactions take an inordinate amount of time to complete. Currently, there is a 3 week minimum time frame which is causing losses to both traders and citizens. It takes at least one week of tracking for every office and then approximately one month in order to get the permit. In fact, this system in Saudi Arabia is considered to be quite a primitive bureaucratic system that has not been changed for decades. The current business permit system is outdated and wastes both money and precious time. Many trips to various government offices are now required to follow the permit through its application process. Business' headquarters are usually located in the main cities. These headquarter offices send their delegates to follow-up their permit procedures which are located in small cities. They pay unnecessary additional expenses for their representatives such as hotel, transportation, and food costs. The system also increases the number of commuters to the city. Traffic jams, car accidents and even deaths may be the unintended consequences. The customers waste copious amounts of fuel and time tracking the pennit applications, while the Government spends millions of Saudi riyals in a fuel anti-consumption program. From the above we could say the current permit system contributes to delaying the citizen and increasing his costs. By using ever increasing amounts of gasoline, the Saudi economy and environment are harmed in many ways. Also, the system contributes to the transportation issues The inspectors have a serious issue with the current system. While they are inspecting the business site, they waste a lot of time by driving long distances. They waste time by driving from the office to the business site and from the business site to other business site in order to inspect them. This affects the inspector's health and shortens the life of the car which used by the inspectors. Also, that leads to increased car expenses such as fuel, car oil and maintenance.

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Since the beginning of the country's history, Saudi Arabia has dramatically transformed every aspect of its existence from its booming economy to the massive expansion of educational offerings. But this natural resource and tradition rich nation is now faced with a cultural revolution that is not unfamiliar in the history of mankind yet is exceptionally unique to modern society. In a time when almost all countries in the world have recognized women to be an essential part of civil society, the kingdom is just beginning to turn its attention to the inequality women experience there. In light of this paradigm shift in the way women are viewed in Saudi Arabia, education is at the forefront illustrating evident signs of this change. With the support of the king and powerful political leaders universities are opening their doors to female engineers and companies are starting to employ more and more females outside the realm of education. With such momentum building it is an auspicious moment to further stretch the boundaries and reach for a wider audience including younger females in secondary school. This project introduces a comprehensive program for the enrollment of secondary school female students in a program constructed around the hope to encourage girls to consider engineering as a topic of study at higher education institutions. The program embodies the idea of learning, applying, creating and engineering (LACE) where students will take an intensive engineering course (IEC) hosted by universities outside of KSA and a project course at their local secondary school to apply what they learned through the creation and engineering of a solution that address issues challenging their communities.

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