“Strategic Projects”… Will They Succeed in Saving Iraq from the Water Scarcity Crisis?

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[size=52]“Strategic Projects”… Will They Succeed in Saving Iraq from the Water Scarcity Crisis?[/size]

[size=45]Iraq faces major challenges in water resource management due to climate change and population expansion, which has led to increasing water scarcity.[/size]
[size=45]In response to these challenges, the Ministry of Water Resources announced the launch of a series of strategic projects aimed at improving water management and enhancing water security in the country.[/size]
[size=45]These projects include upgrading irrigation networks, building dams, and developing water recycling technologies. Despite the challenges, these plans offer hope for achieving water sustainability, although there are questions about the effectiveness of implementation in light of regional tensions over water shares and accelerating climate change.[/size]
[size=45]The Minister of Water Resources, Aoun Diab Abdullah, confirmed that his ministry has completed strategic projects to address the water scarcity that the country is suffering from within the government program, which is the conversion from open to closed channels to reduce water losses and evaporation, in addition to limiting violations of water quotas to ensure the delivery of water to the governorates in good quantities and quality and the delivery of water to the distillation stations.[/size]
[size=45]He also listed the most important projects currently being worked on in this context, the Basra water pipeline, which has reached 60 percent completion with a total length of 55 km, and in two phases, the first of which is converting the open channel to a closed one with a length of 45 km, and the second is lined with a concrete blanket with a length of ten km.[/size]
[size=45]Minister Aoun Diab Abdullah said, “The rainfall during the current winter is less than its counterpart last year according to expectations and by specific percentages. Then the lakes of the dams: Haditha, Hamrin, Dokan, and Darbandikhan, in addition to Habbaniyah and Tharthar, contain large empty stored quantities exceeding 40 billion m3.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained that "the strategic water storage for the current year is better than the previous year by ten billion m3."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "His ministry succeeded in securing the first irrigation for the wheat crop for the current season."[/size]
[size=45]Expressing his hope “to secure acceptable water quotas for Hori Al-Chibayish and Al-Huwaizeh, given the water scarcity the country is suffering from,” revealing that “Iraq went through the most difficult drought in decades last summer.”[/size]
[size=45]He explained that “the large human uses in Iraq, and the scarcity of water resources from Turkey, which did not exceed 400 m3/s or less sometimes on the Tigris River, and 300 m3/s or less for the Euphrates River.”[/size]
[size=45]Abdullah attributed the “shortage of water quotas coming from Türkiye via the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the giant projects it is implementing in the two river basins.”[/size]
[size=45]The most important of these is investing in water in the (KAP) project located in southeastern Anatolia, which aims to create a water reserve exceeding 100 billion m3 by constructing 22 dams.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to other projects, the areas that the Turkish perpetrator wants to include in the agricultural plans amount to four million acres, in addition to establishing dams to generate electricity.[/size]
[size=45]Water resources experts stressed the need to expedite the resolution of the water scarcity crisis facing Iraq, emphasizing the importance of overcoming technical and administrative obstacles that hinder the implementation of strategic projects.[/size]
[size=45]Experts believe that the success of these projects depends on adopting modern technologies in resource management, as well as enhancing regional cooperation to ensure that Iraq gets its fair share of water.[/size]
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