Preventing the use of chlorine in the Baghdad belt increases the risk of water contamination

Preventing the use of chlorine in the Baghdad belt increases the risk of water contamination


 Baghdad / Star Ghazi

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A committee of services in Baghdad's provincial council on Wednesday attributed the interruption of water to some neighborhoods to terrorist attacks on drinking water networks and said that those who bypass transmission networks are the other cause. Abu Ghraib and peace and victory, as a result of the security forces prevented the arrival of chlorine into the water circles.

The deputy head of the services committee in the Baghdad Provincial Council Ali Ahmed Faraj said "the range", "The terrorist operations have affected some areas of the belt of Baghdad, causing the destruction of some networks of drinking water, noting that among those areas are the areas of Abu Ghraib, Mahmudiyah and Yusufiyah "He said.
Faraj pointed out that "the areas of the neighborhood of labs east of Baghdad and Sadiya in central Baghdad suffer from large abuses by citizens on water networks, pointing out that" these abuses have weakened the delivery of potable water to factories and Sede. "
Faraj said that "the province of Baghdad has coordination with the Secretariat of Baghdad and the Ministry of Housing and Construction and Public Municipalities to lift the abuses and repair of water networks and station Karabla in the Rusafa side."
For her part, said the citizen Dawai Jasab al-Saadi, a resident of Zaafaraniya east of Baghdad for the "range", "The people of the Zafaraniya suffer from a great scarcity of drinking water, especially families living in agricultural areas, adding that the water that reaches the houses in Zaafaraniya are similar Smelly and color tends to gray, which is sterile water. "
She pointed out that "the families went to buy water from the laboratories of (Aru) because of purity and quality, stressing that I spend a week to 25 thousand dinars to buy water from the civil plants in our region."
She added that "there are many poor families can not buy sterile water, noting that most of the families in the Zaafaraniya area live in the areas beyond it as agricultural land and the ancients."
She appealed to Saadi, "the federal government and the competent departments to deliver drinking water and sterilized with chlorine to be valid for drinking so as not to spread epidemic diseases such as cholera and typhoid."
On the other hand, a member of the Committee on Health and Environment Representative Hassan Khalati told "The Range" that "any shortage in the provision of safe drinking water to citizens leads to the spread of epidemiological and environmental diseases."
He added that "the monitoring of the health status of citizens is within the jurisdiction of the Directorate of Public Health in the Ministry of Health," noting that "the health parliamentary calls on the federal government to address abuses on drinking water networks for drinking and purification technology."
On the other hand, the head of the Committee on Health and Environment in the Baghdad Provincial Council, Nahida al-Tamimi of the "range", "There are reasons for security not to supply chlorine to the water circles in Abu Ghraib and the area of ​​victory and peace."
"The committee received complaints from some local council officials from those areas and the Abu Ghraib cemetery not to provide chlorine to sterilize the water by the province of Baghdad."
She pointed out that "there is coordination between the governor of Baghdad for the purpose of providing chlorine and delivery to areas that suffer from water scarcity and high pollution in them."

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