Government mobilization to supply drinking water to Basra

30/8/2018 12:00 am 


[rtl]Baghdad / Wafa Amer and Isra Samurai 

Basrah / Saad Al Sammak
The problem of water salinity in the province of Basrah priorities of the government at the present time, as the relevant authorities directly and indirectly sought their efforts to resolve the crisis, while Baghdad is studying some offers from international companies to address the problem in a sustainable manner. 
It is hoped that the province of Basra on Thursday a meeting with oil companies to discuss the issue of the establishment of desalination units, while demanding the local government to launch financial allocations for the construction of the dam on the Shatt al-Arab to prevent the entry of the Gulf water saline to the Shatt al-Arab. 
A statement issued by the Secretariat General of the Council of Ministers, received "morning", a copy of it, "Secretary-General Mahdi Alalak stressed during a meeting with Dutch Ambassador Mataies Walters," The government is studying the offers by specialized companies to address the problem of water in Basra in a sustainable manner " . 
He added that "the two sides discussed the prospects of joint cooperation and activating the economic, service and investment aspects between Baghdad and Amsterdam and how to benefit from the expertise of the Dutch companies specialized in the construction and maintenance of maritime infrastructure and at the international level, especially in the field of drilling, dredging, dams and reservoirs, In the province of Basra in the dry season. " Walters presented proposals and preliminary studies that will address the water scarcity sustainably within high standards and using the latest global technology, expressing "the desire of Dutch companies to invest and develop the economic reality in Basra province, especially in the agriculture and water sectors," the statement said.
For his part, a spokesman for the media office of Prime Minister Saad al-Hadithi, for "conscious": The Prime Minister Astnr parties directly and indirectly to resolve the crisis of water pollution in the province of Basra as soon as possible, saying "directing military operations leaders in the southern provinces to take over Follow up the excesses on the current river water from Qal'at Salih to Basra after the Ministry of Water Resources obliged to deliver a water quota sufficient for local consumption, which is set at 75 meters per second in coordination with the local government there, and follow up on abuses on water distribution networks within the province. Eliminate the shortage of water reaching citizens. " In addition, the Basra province revealed Asad al-Eidani, a special meeting on Thursday with the five licensing companies to discuss the possibility of assigning them to build desalination units in all areas of Basra. 
He added that "the projects completed in the past by those companies did not find useful for Basra, especially projects paving some of the streets, as they were in remote areas," calling at the same time, "the Ministry of Finance to release the amount of three and a half billion dollars approved by the Council of Ministers of In order to expedite the construction of the dam in the Shatt al-Arab channel to prevent the tyranny of the Gulf water saline on the waters of the Shatt. " In the same context, Assistant Director General of the Public Health Department Mohammed Jaber said in a statement to "Al Sabah" that "the ministry and within the procedures of the crisis cell formed in the province of Basra sent three trucks loaded with the necessary medicines and nutrients and other health supplies, . He pointed out that "an expanded meeting held by officials of the ministry in the Department of Health of Basra to discuss the mechanism of dealing with desalination plants as well as granting licenses to these stations and also provide licenses for vehicles carrying drinking water." At the same time, the Director General of the Department of Cultural Relations in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Karim Al-Waeli, told "Al-Sabah": "The Ministry, in coordination with the Association of Women's Educational Voice adopted the dispatch of drinking water within the campaign to the province of Basra," noting that " "He said. He revealed the dispatch of 20 trucks loaded with drinking water tanks from the Directorate General to raise Salah al-Din to Basra and there are other directorates will work the same initiative in the coming days, "stressing that" the campaign is voluntary and not mandatory. "[/rtl]



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