Baghdad – IA – Hassan Al-Fawaz
At the moment, Monday, the Minister of Water Sources, Aoun Dhiab, revealed the main points of the discussions with the Turkish aspect concerning the water file, whereas indicating the intention to ascertain water harvesting dam tasks.
Diab mentioned in the course of the second assembly of the joint committee between Iraq and Turkey on water, which was attended by the correspondent of the (INA): “The Prime Minister considers the problem of water to be the primary and most essential precedence within the authorities program to carry a few qualitative shift within the file of water sources administration along with the financial and industrial points between the 2 nations.” “.
He defined, “There are tasks ready for implementation, similar to water harvesting dams and different strategic tasks,” noting that “the southern areas undergo from a water shortage disaster, such because the Al-Amara and Shatt Al-Gharraf irrigation tasks in Nasiriyah.”
He identified that “local weather modifications, particularly in the summertime months, have a transparent and vital impression on the water state of affairs within the nation and the nations of the area, particularly with the rise in temperatures.”
He added, “The state of affairs within the Tigris River is nice, particularly since this 12 months was heavy with rainwater, however the state of affairs is completely different within the Euphrates River, particularly the Haditha Dam,” expressing “his hope that there will probably be help from the Turkish aspect on this regard.”
He added, “We completed rising rice in a big approach throughout this 12 months, as the realm ready for agriculture amounted to about 450,000 dunums, and Iraq continues to be planting 150,000 dunums all through the nation.”
He identified that “the assembly will focus on the outcomes of the Prime Minister’s latest go to to Ankara and what was mentioned with the Turkish President and proceed with activating the provisions of the framework settlement concerning water and going through the challenges attributable to rising temperatures and evaporation, based on international indicators.”
He continued, “Now we have plenty of tasks that we stay up for implementing with the Turkish aspect to achieve security and overcome the shortage disaster that the nation and the area are going by means of, together with water harvesting dams that we’re working to place into service so that there’s a truthful distribution of the water share among the many Iraqi governorates.”
Dhiab expressed his hope that “these conferences will produce selections that will probably be achieved on the bottom,” indicating that “the Ministry is absolutely ready to obtain Turkish corporations, as there are not any obstacles in implementing tasks and it’s attainable that we might get hold of an exception from the Council of Ministers in an effort to contract straight with these corporations.” “.
He defined that “the ministry has moved to a brand new stage, which is implementing infrastructure tasks for irrigation tasks, and this may have a optimistic impression on the citizen by means of the presence of Turkish corporations working on this essential subject,” noting that “Iraq preceded neighboring nations in utilizing numerous irrigation strategies beforehand.”
He said that “there’s a governmental strategy to take away bottlenecks within the water file and obtain a qualitative leap on this facet, which is the principle axis of the framework settlement with Turkey and a change within the actuality of water administration in Iraq,” stressing “the necessity for an actual strategy by Turkish corporations to assist the tasks carried out by Iraq to enhance The truth of the water administration file.