The Minister of Water Resources announces the shift to closed irrigation

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[size=52]The Minister of Water Resources announces the shift to closed irrigation[/size]

[size=45]Yesterday, Tuesday, Minister of Water Resources Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani announced the shift from open to closed irrigation in all irrigation projects of the Ministry.[/size]
[size=45]A statement received by Al-Mada stated that "Al-Hamdani received in his office at the Ministry's center Sheikh Ahmed Al-Jarba, a dignitary and sheikh of Nineveh Governorate."[/size]
[size=45]The statement added, "The meeting reviewed the work of the ministry's staff in all governorates in order to ensure the delivery of water quotas to everyone and fairly through the continued application of the Marashna system and the removal of abuses of all kinds and forms from the water system in the country." The statement quoted Al-Hamdani as emphasizing “the need for everyone, each according to his position, to cooperate with the ministry’s staff for the purpose of facing the challenges facing the ministry’s work and overcoming the water scarcity crisis.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hamdani stressed that "the ministry, not long ago, began to switch from open irrigation to closed irrigation in all its current projects under implementation to reduce water losses and ensure optimal use of this important national and water wealth."[/size]
[size=45]The spokesman for the ministry, Ali Radi, had stated, "Iraq has two plans, the first is to use water releases from dams and reservoirs to meet the main requirements, which are agricultural land, which is the largest consumer, drinking water, and the share of the marshes, in addition to pushing the salt tongue from the Shatt al-Arab water."[/size]
[size=45]Radi added, "This plan coincides with a second plan for water distributions, which is related to the management of distributions, the application of the Marashnah system, and the lifting of abuses in order to make the agricultural plan a success, secure water for it, and ensure that water reaches the areas located in the rivers that suffer from a crisis in access to water."[/size]
[size=45]He talked about "other measures related to re-drilling wells and rehabilitating a large part of them in areas where access to healthy water is difficult." Radi affirmed, "The only solution that the Ministry of Water Resources is working on in conditions of scarcity is to reduce the agricultural plan to 50%."[/size]
[size=45]He noted, "The marshes suffered from water scarcity, but within the ministry's plan, there are quantities that will reach them, but we suffer from some encroachments on the waterways."[/size]
[size=45]Radi added, "The sources of nutrition for the marshes are not only from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, so what concerns us as the Ministry of Water Resources, we work to provide a certain amount of this water to revitalize the marshes."[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that experts have warned on more than one occasion of the water crisis and stated that drought will strike Iraq, stressing that the problem is exacerbated today, through the displacement of many residents of the marsh areas in addition to the destruction of animals, and other things that we previously warned about and called for a review of plans agricultural, with the transition to modern irrigation systems, stressing that these solutions can fill us with the crisis in the marshes and the southern governorates.[/size]
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