A sit-in cuts the Baghdad-Babel road against drought and water scarcity

A sit-in cuts the Baghdad-Babel road against drought and water scarcity


 Babylon / Iqbal Mohammed

Hundreds of people on the Nile side north of Babil province decided to sit on the Baghdad-Babel road to protest the water scarcity and drought of agricultural land. A number of angry protesters broke the lining of Babel's irrigation table. The Committee on Agriculture and Water decided to remove the lining from the table after it provoked " Citizens ".

The governor of Babylon, Sadiq al-Sultani said in an interview for the "range", that a delegation of "a government of Babylon consists of the President of the provincial council and a number of members of the House of Representatives and a number of members of the provincial council demanded the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Salim Jubouri during a visit to his official House of Representatives the need to find solutions Radical and final to the problem of water scarcity, especially in the areas of the table of Babylon. "
"The problem of water scarcity has been discussed in the table of Babel in particular and areas of the province in general and the suffering experienced by the people of the lack of drinking water and watering."
Al-Sultani called for the intervention of the central government in both its executive and legislative branches, as it is concerned and decision-maker in this matter, and can find solutions to this problem, which is a great danger to citizens not only in the Babylonian calendar but also in other parts of the province.
The Sultan said that "
The Speaker of the House of Representatives expressed his readiness to put this problem within the agenda of the next meeting of the House of Representatives and in the presence of the Governor of Babylon Sadiq Sultani and discussed with the Committee of agricultural and water parliamentary and find solutions to the root and root of this problem, which threatens the lives of citizens. " During his attendance and participation demonstrations, Water shortage in their regions The Royal Minister called for the intervention of the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Agricultural and Water Committee in the House of Representatives in order to put an appropriate and urgent solution to the problem of water scarcity in the area of ​​the table Babylon to eliminate this problem, which is threatening the parents and deprive the Radhi from agriculture and forced the people to migrate from the countryside to the center to get rid of the problem, stressing that there is a solution directed by the Prime Minister and with the assistance of the parliamentary agricultural and water committee under the supervision of the Speaker of the Council of Representatives to eliminate this problem, which threatens the lives of citizens and their livelihood.
"Residents of the areas located on the table of Babylon, which lies in the Nile region 12 kilometers north of Babylon, took out a large demonstration in which the international road passing through the Nile area was cut because of the lack or lack of water from watering and drinking water With the table of Babylon, which is 36 km long and was cemented by cement in a wrong way and non-scientific led to the lack of water to tens of thousands of citizens and reached the deprivation of thousands of citizens and 52 thousand acres of agricultural located on the table of Babylon's table to get water.
He pointed out to the gesture that the governor of Babylon was with us the demonstration, the son of the Nile and explained to him our suffering, he knows well and promised us good to go to the House of Representatives and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to present our permanent problem in the most important detail of my life is water.
And a gesture for years ago and we put our problem on the Ministry of Water Resources and the local government and our ministry and many delegations and several committees visited the table and promised us good but unfortunately we did not get any result and
pointed to the people on the Nile side and residents of the areas on the table of Babel irrigation from the constant promises of officials and To break the lining of some areas of the table to protest their promises that have not been implemented.
The river and the sub-streams of the Babel table in many areas are free of water and the villagers dig wells and have salty water.
On its part, the Committee on Agriculture and Water decided on Sunday to lift the lining of the Babylonian irrigation table because it is a popular demand because the project did not achieve the economic feasibility of its incompleteness and caused great damage.
The citizen's bloc said in a statement, "Al-Mada" a copy of it, On the basis of the directives of the Speaker of the House of Representatives at the seventh session of the House of Representatives, to hold a special special session, including the Committee on Agriculture and Water parliamentary representatives of Babil province and the delegation of the Ministry of Water Resources to discuss the water crisis in Iraq and Babylon in particular, and hosting the Committee on Agriculture and Water parliamentary headed by MP Furat Tamimi, The Governor of Babel, a number of the governorate's deputies and the delegation of the Ministry of Water Resources represented by Mr. Zafer Abdullah Hussein, Advisor to the Ministry, Ali Radhi Thamer, Director General of the General Authority for Irrigation and Balancing Projects, Jamal Mohsen Ali, Director General of Planning and Follow-
Ali Hashim Kata, director of the National Center for Engineering Design, and Havan Hassan Salman, Director of the Department of Community Partnership in the center of the ministry) " She added that" the meeting agreed to lift the lining of the table Babil irrigation because it is a public demand that the project did not achieve the economic feasibility of its incompleteness and cause great damage "


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