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Call for the adoption of a strategy to achieve water security
14/12/2017 12:00 am To raise the fertility of agricultural production lands Baghdad / Emad Al-Amara The Government, through the Ministry of Water Resources, seeks to find the advanced methods of water investment in the development of agriculture, with the aim of improving agricultural production, water supply and reclamation of soil in order to reduce the salinity and desertification that hinder the development of agricultural lands. Of the Tigris and Euphrates waters. "The decline in the annual discharge of both the Tigris and Euphrates waters and after the implementation of many Turkish and Syrian projects on the two rivers, led to high rates of salts in the agricultural soils after the irrigation of this water," said academic Ahmed Omar al-Rawi. Water rated explained the narrator that "high soluble salts to 1000 ppm leads to the accumulation of salt soil to the amount of 7.5 tons / hectare per year according to the water rated of 15 thousand cubic meters / ha. Has caused a high degree blather water that exceed the 1500 part of the damage 40 salinity Percent of the land that is irrigated with these waters to become useless lands " "The development of agriculture and continued" The impact of the water policy of countries that are similar to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers on the process of development of Iraqi agriculture through the decrease in quantities received from Iraq. This means that it is impossible to cultivate all arable lands, since the land cultivated on the irrigation water does not exceed 12 million dunums of the total 22 million dunums, meaning that a large proportion of arable land is subject to desertification. Desertification and noted that "lower amounts received from the water will affect the reclamation of land affected by salinization operations, thus leaving these lands to desertification processes, as the quantity of water required to wash acres and one of the land in which rose salt is estimated at 7,000 cubic meters, and therefore there is a need To about 90 billion cubic meters to wash about 13 million acres of land with high salt to re-privacy. Distribution of water Due to the importance of surface water used by agriculture in Iraq, which is estimated at 85% of the total water used, the narrator "the need to rationalize this use and work to raise the efficiency of irrigation irrigation prevailing in Iraqi agriculture by lining the irrigation channels, which lead to waste 40% Water in transport through non-lined channels, and control of water distribution in irrigation projects, where these projects are managed in traditional ways that are inefficient and lead to irregular water. " For his part, academic economist Dr. Amr Hisham explained in an interview with Al-Sabah the importance of using sewage water in agriculture to re-pump it after the deposition of solid materials and its use in the cultivation of new areas instead of diverting them to the river water to increase the pollution of the rivers with the waste they carry. The study suggested reducing the evaporation of reservoirs in Iraq by using floating materials such as waxes or polystyrene sheets that prevent access. The sun and reduce the evaporation, where the estimated quantities evaporated annually of water reservoirs in Iraq by about 6.7 billion cubic meters. "Water security is the strategic reserve for national security, especially since 70 percent of Iraq's water flow comes from outside the border," Hisham said. "To address these changes requires the adoption of a clear strategy for national water security." The importance of planning and managing water resources in an integrated manner takes into consideration Environmental, economic and social dimensions, while working to secure strategic storage to meet the need for water in times of health. He stressed the need to "adopt a water policy that guarantees water resources, protects their quality, preserves reserves from underground reserves, and disseminates the concepts of water security among citizens, especially farmers, as the basis of water use and awareness of the importance of preserving this vital resource." [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] |
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