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Low water levels from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers may force Iraq to shut down its thermal and hydro power plants, a government spokesman said. The spokesman, refusing to be named, said the volume of water reaching Iraq from the two rivers, which originate in Turkey, had fallen to unprecedented levels and may eventually not […]
Reuters‘ Serena Chaudhry reports lack of water is ruining crops and farmers’ livlihoods. She cites the case of Abdullah Hasan a 50-year-old father of five from Falluja in western Anbar province who has been was forced to abandon his 50 acres of land and take a job in construction after years of drought killed off […]
A project to extend a water network in al-Jazirah neighborhood in southern Talafar district, western Mosul, at a total cost of 92 million Iraqi dinars was finalized on Sunday, the mayor said. “The three-km-long project to increase the drinking water network was finalized today (May 23). It has been made possible through finance from a […]
Water Resources Minister Abdulatief Jamal Rashied on Thursday called on Dutch companies to invest in Iraq, mainly in irrigation projects, according to a ministry’s statement. “This came during his meeting with Dutch Ambassador in Baghdad Peter Van Liven, with whom he discussed ways of boosting bilateral relations in irrigation ,” said the statement received by […]
Ten new water projects are underway in al-Muthana province. “The projects aim to improve water services in al-Muthana,” a local source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Wednesday. He noted that there could be a potential shortage in water during the summer. ( Aswat Al Iraq )
Iraq Ministry of Water Resources said that it has a plan to establish more than 30 dams in Iraq in order to irrigate agricultural land and to provide drinking water for the habitation regions and stressed that these projects will be implemented in the upcoming years because they cost a lot.
Minister of Water Resources, Abdulatief Jamal Rashied, signed on Thursday implementing strategic study of Iraq’s water and lands resources contract with Italian SGI and MED companies at a cost of $35.8 million
Baghdad’s Mayoralty has allocated ID6 billion to repair drinking water systems in the Iraqi capital.“The amount is allocated in the 2010 investment plan,” the mayoralty said in a release on Wednesday received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It noted that the mayoralty has a plan to renew every outdated drinking water system in Baghdad. ( […]
Water Resources Minister Abdullatief Jamal Rashied headed for Jordan leading an Iraqi delegation to attend a meeting with Italian companies on the strategic study of water resources, a ministry’s statement said on Wednesday. “The long-term strategic study is considered as the future policy for water resources in Iraq,” the minister said in a statement received […]
The National Investment Commission has approved two investment projects with a total cost of $485 million, according to an official statement from the NIC on Tuesday. “The first is a housing project to set up a residential compound in al-Ameriya region in western Baghdad, while the second is to set up seven drinking water treatment […]
The water shortage problem in Baghdad will be solved in 20 months, the Baghdad Mayor Sabir al-Issawi said on Monday. “Stage – 1 of the Rusafa giant water project that will be soon finished will produce around 910 thousand cubic meters of water per day,” al-Issawi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said that the […]
People in the Arab world need fuller and freer information about shrinking water supplies but their governments are withholding it for fear of fuelling unrest, a United Nations expert said on Thursday. Arable land makes up just 4.2 percent of the Middle East and North Africa and is expected to shrink due to climate change […]
