Local administration assured peasants: No danger to your farms

Local administration assured peasants: No danger to your farms


 Maysan / Ali Abdel Wahed

Waiting for the province of Maysan, coming floods across the border from neighboring Iran, for the purpose of adding them to the water balance in the rivers maintain in order to take advantage of them in the areas of irrigation and agriculture, and stressed that those controlled by the floods according Stratgiat adopted by the province saves the chances of what might caused by the destruction and razing of agricultural land.
It revealed to the Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources for a plan to build a number of dams for water storage and utilization of rain water.
The Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources in the Maysan province, Maitham Alsdjan in an interview with (range) , "We are waiting for the floods coming from the Islamic Republic of Iran, which will serve as a water batch revive water resources and contribute to the watering of farmland in the province after being Thouliha through the dam located area of good to the good and Duerg River which flow into the marshes of the province. "
He added Alsdjan "In previous years , the floods are dangerous and clear agricultural land and damage to crops and suffered some material damage to farmers and citizens, and now are those torrents do not constitute any subject of risk after the strategy developed by the province , " pointing out that "the intention of the provincial council in the future building dams to store water but because of the lack of allocation of funds for the construction of these dams make hanging up. "
He explained Alsdjan, that " the establishment of dams is very important is the government material amounts allocated the fact that there is a large annual amounts of water can be stored and utilized in the field of agriculture, irrigation and water resources, especially since the country is witnessing a water crisis , " adding that " the government referrer Maysan does not have physical possibilities in the construction of these dams
huge. "
The local official in Maysan province, said that "there is an abundance of water quantities , but it needs to create lakes or reservoirs and the construction of additional dams on the Tigris River to conserve water , especially this year saw heavy rains and water floods are enormous, but did not take advantage of them for lack of proactive plans ".
However , the local official, saying, "There is a high - level joint coordination between the Department of Water Resources in Basra and Maysan , for the purpose of paying greater amounts of water towards the Shatt al - Arab."
The past years have seen the destruction of large areas of agricultural land in the good and the gray hair area on the west and other areas in Maysan province, due to water coming from Iran floods in addition to the extensive damage left by citizens who live near the path of these floods.
Suffer most of the districts and sub - districts, villages and towns in the province of Maysan, its city of Amara, water scarcity and lack of treatments, especially that summer will soon be over the seriousness of the situation and threatens Ptsahr land and abandoned by the population.


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