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Iraq depends on 250 billion cubic liters of groundwater
Iraq 2023/08/03
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Baghdad: Muhannad Abdel-Wahhab
, the dry season is slowly suffocating the agricultural sector in Iraq, while the dire state of the Tigris and Euphrates provides a brief description of the water situation in Iraq, so it seemed logical to rely on a strategic reserve of groundwater estimated by statistics at about 250 billion cubic meters to end the thirst that strikes country.
The head of the Parliamentary Agriculture, Water and Marshes Committee, Faleh Al-Khazali, said: “The percentage of salt concentrations is 7000 TTS, as the committee did not allow the drilling of wells,” noting that “the committee suggested that Al-Falah undertake the establishment of a marine station according to modern technologies.
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For his part, the Director General of the General Authority for Ground Water in the Ministry of Water Resources, Maitham Ali, said: “The authority is the only body responsible for groundwater in terms of determining quantity, quality, and drilling approvals.” Sanda identifies groundwater reservoirs prepared for investment and promising within several studies, in partnership with foreign companies, that determine the quality of water in each reservoir and the amount of withdrawal.
And he indicated that “there are 11 main reservoirs in Iraq, as groundwater has become important in recent years due to climate changes and the scarcity of surface water, especially the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which prompted the ministry to head to the desert to exploit these water reservoirs to grow wheat and barley crops, as Iraq exploited 3 Millions and 800 thousand dunums for this purpose, except for vegetable crops that depend on groundwater, and we have granted drilling approvals for the purpose of including lands in the water share.
Regarding the drilling approvals, he said: “It depends on the conditions and approval of the water share. During the year 2022 until now, 5,225 thousand water shares were granted through wells, groundwater and areas distributed to the governorates, while the number of wells registered with the authority reached 100 thousand wells, of which 80 thousand are wells.” For agriculture, according to legal conditioning, including 13,000 wells dug by farmers, in addition to 3 types of wells for residential complexes, irrigation and other
human needs.
He added that “the quality of the water in the sedimentary plain is poor in the presence of high salinity, and we are currently working on digging wells and installing desalination plants in addition to testing the water,” noting that “the underground water storage amounts to 250 billion cubic meters, part of which is in the sedimentary plain and the promising and untapped reservoirs are The Western Desert and the Southern Badia, and there is a concentration in the governorates of Kirkuk and Salah al-Din, and 95% of the land of Kirkuk is on groundwater, and 70% of the agricultural areas in Tikrit are on wells. We also went to dig 415 wells in Diyala and provide wells for nearby orchards. migrate to the city.”
He pointed out that "the number of wells in western Iraq, with the legal adjustment, reaches 110,000 wells, of which 80,000 are used for agriculture, and 20% are in the Samawah desert and the beginning of Najaf and Anbar, 2,500 wells are currently
exploited."
Edited by: Ali Abdel-Khalek
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