Iraq plans to launch a long-term investment strategy for the establishment of dams and water bodies

Iraq plans to launch a long-term investment strategy for the establishment of dams and water bodies


27.03.2014 (0:01 pm)


Iraq plans to launch a long-term investment strategy for the establishment of dams and water bodies
Baghdad / term Revealed the Ministry of Water Resources for the strategic plan, long-term extends for 20 years to create dams and water bodies and tanks to take advantage of the Tigris and Euphrates in the continuous reduction of water levels, noting that such a plan has been developed by consulting firms specialized foreign, and if completed will contribute to quench land Agricultural and absorb rainwater, as she told the Committee on Agriculture and Water that the parliamentary budget of the Ministry of aquatic resources amounting to 18 billion dinars is not sufficient to carry out its ambitions.
The Director General of Water Resources Ali Hashim, in an interview, "to the extent" that his ministry has developed a study of a comprehensive strategy for all water uses of the construction of new dams and reservoirs continue until 2035, indicating that it "will determine public perceptions on imports of water resources in the country and how to use them optimally on All sectors of the recipient. "Hashim said, "The study carried out by foreign companies dedicated to the study strategic uses of water and land that will be on the road map at the end of this year," pointing out that "study, which will be presented by the Italian company will be in three phases completed the first of them after five years to be the stage followed by ". He pointed out that "The study will take into account the dams and reservoirs existing bearing in mind that some of them need to sustainability and then identify areas that need to build dams and new reservoirs," adding that "Lake Habbaniyah and Jabber Razzazah considered private space aspect of tourism as well as by the water storage Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the season imports of water. "
Hashim explained that the "bodies of water where large amounts of water must be controlled and not left without wasting take advantage of them," explaining that she found to ward off floods that can get in some seasons Add to utilize them in the distribution of agricultural land. "
For his part, member of the Committee on Agriculture and Water parliamentary Kazem Qasim Ali, the "long" that "the country does not suffer from the problem of providing studies and projects on rivers as much as it suffers from a problem of management," pointing out that "the completion of water resources projects need to finance large fiscal This is what the ministry can not be implemented from budget allocations, estimated at 18 billion dinars. " And between Qasim said that "the best solution lies in the adoption of the law of infrastructure that would have, if approved, to build dams and new reservoirs and exposing the old ones to sustainability," stressing that "the country has not yet contracted with foreign companies or local implementation of new projects on rivers in both sides of the water, agriculture, what their role is hoped canceled in the advancement of this sector. "
He added that "The ministry can not develop strategic plans for water management, what were not we have an agreement with Turkey on the dams, which is now threatening the low water levels in the country", and therefore there is no need for the construction of dams and reservoirs in the light of the continuing decline and access to less than 50%. "
He stressed member of the Committee on "the need to attract foreign companies to the amounts prescribed by the country's budget, which will help to get to the development of plans and strategies that could lead to the advancement of the case of water," he said, adding that "a large proportion of the budget of the country is currently using the aspects of operational and investment budget does not exceed 30 % ".


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