The Husseiniya threshold resolves the biggest tribal conflict in Basra that has lasted for years

[yota691]

Abadi congratulated Eid: to stand together with our citizens and continue to meet their true demands

Release date: 2018/8/21 15:02 • 30 times read

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated Iraqis and the Islamic nation by Eid al-Adha.

He said in his congratulations on the occasion of the feast received by the {Euphrates News} copy of it today, "the most sincere expressions of congratulations and sincere congratulations to our people and the Islamic nation on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, God rest assured his ability to our people and our country good and stability and well-being and unity of the word after we worked hard to consolidate Our unity, which paved the way for victory and construction and correct the march of our country, God willing. " 
He added: "I am happy to the Almighty to protect all Iraqis and help us to serve our people and provide a decent living and job opportunities and projects that benefit them and replace their patience well after we set plans to achieve them and began to work."
"I also call on all those who have won the confidence of the people in the recent elections to roll up their sleeves and sharpen their influence now, to stand together with our citizens and continue to meet their true demands and what they have recently gone for," he said. 
He concluded by saying, "I also congratulate all the pilgrims of the House of God, performing the rituals of Hajj, wishing them a blessed pilgrimage and a happy return to the homeland."

[yota691]

 

 

Former deputy brags to Iraqis on holiday holiday

Release date: 2018/8/21 22:08 • 657 times read

[Ayn-Baghdad] 
A former Iraqi deputy published pictures on his way to spend Eid days in a country.

"Now I and my family have crossed the land border between Spain and Portugal by car to spend the Eid holiday, where there is no checkpoint, no control, no sign other than this painting, which we took the picture," MP Mishaan al-Jubouri said on the social networking page. 
"I and my son Ripal and to make the publication of the occasion for a follower on my followers and I wish you to achieve what you wish." 
Iraqis now suffer from multiple crises of poor services, unemployment, widespread corruption and nepotism in state institutions.

[Butifldrm]

 

2018/08/21 16:00

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Basra Council: The number of people infected with poisoning by 500 injuries due to water pollution

 

 

BAGHDAD - The Basra Provincial Council announced on Tuesday (August 21st, 2018) the number of poisoning cases in the province to more than 500 due to bacterial contamination in salt water.

"The salinity rate in the waters of Basra, the aging of the water pipes, the passage of the sewage and the breakage, led to the growth of some types of bacteria inside the water pipes and their contamination," said a member of the council.

She added that "this bacterial type caused the injury of more than 500 citizens of the people of Basra poisoning and colic intestinal and were referred to public hospitals in Basra," noting that "the injuries were concentrated in one area, but the general province because of the percentage of salinity in the water and pollution."

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Something else to protest about. 

[Pitcher]

Basra protests spark government scramble to create jobs

ARTICLE SUMMARY

The Iraqi Council of Ministers has approved a regulation requiring that 50% of foreign oil company employees working in the country be Iraqis.

The Iraqi Cabinet announced Aug. 12 that it has approved a regulation by the Ministry of Labor requiring that 50% of foreign oil company employees working in the country be Iraqis. The move followed mass demonstrations in Basra calling for better public services, including clean water and working and reliable electricity, and job opportunities for the unemployed in the city. Iraq's largest oil reserves lie beneath Basra province.

Basra Governor Assaad al-Eidani had on July 31 announced that an agreement had been concluded with the foreign oil companies to secure job opportunities for Basra residents. Days earlier, the Associated Press reported Deputy Governor Dhirgham al-Ajwadi saying that the unemployment rate in Basra, population 4 million, had risen sharply to at least 30%.

On July 13, demonstrators had stormed the headquarters of the Russian oil company LUKOIL at Basra's West Qurna 2 field, one of the largest, leading workers to pack their belongings. A number of them were evacuated by helicopter.

According to Hamza al-Jawahiri, an oil expert at the Ministry of Oil, “[The new regulation] imposes more restrictions on oil companies, which are already voicing concerns [about workers' skills and experience] and have faced tribal threats since 2003.”

Jawahiri told Al-Monitor, “Creating jobs for tribesmen will limit their attempts to obstruct the work of the oil companies. The approach will also offer local workers necessary skills in the oil sector and develop specialized Iraqi cadres. It would be better for companies to work in this direction, even if it leads to their incurring additional costs and exerting more effort.”

Labor Ministry spokesman Ammar Menem confirmed Jawahiri's assessment to Al-Monitor, and added, “Under this provision, Iraq would abstain from disbursing the payments owed to violating companies.” He further remarked, “The Ministry of Labor's regulation will prevent foreign workers from working in Iraq except with a work permit granted by the Department of Foreigners at the ministry. A previous decision issued by the government allowed the director of the Residence Department [at the Ministry of Interior] and the head of operations [for companies] to grant entry permits without consulting the Ministry of Labor.”

The high rate of unemployment is an ongoing issue that prompted Labor Minister Mohammed Shayya al-Sudani to demand on Jan. 11, during a meeting with Zaid Elyaseri, country manager for British Petroleum (BP), that 50% of oil company workforces consist of local employees. Elyaseri confirmed his company's commitment to employ local labor.

On Aug. 7, the Ministry of Labor reported that more than 100,000 foreign workers had been granted entry permits during 2017 and 2018. Assem Jihad, spokesman for the Ministry of Oil, told Al-Monitor, “Under a contract signed May 23 with the Chinese Genghua company, Iraq binds the company to train Iraqi manpower and establish housing units for workers, in addition to service facilities, such as schools and clinics.”

Jihad also asserted, “In the second round of licensing [companies to work in Iraq], the Ministry of Oil required companies to have the local workforce account for more than 85% and sometimes 90% of their total workforce.”

There were no contracts for work in the Basra fields included in the second round of licensing, conduced in December 2009. Jihad also noted, “The contract of the Eastern Baghdad Field was not within the [second] licensing round, which is why its provisions are different from other fields. Yet still, the proportion of domestic labor has been set at 50-80%.”

As for the demonstrations, which began in early July, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said to the Iraqi News Agency on Aug. 7, “The youths in Basra are frustrated at the lack of jobs, but the Oil Ministry alone has provided more than 139,000 jobs for the people of Basra.”

There are practical assurances that serious steps are being taken aimed at engaging Iraqis in oil work. Asaad Aboud al-Mtori, director of the Shaybah Field, which is run by the Iraq National Oil Company in southern Basra, said, “The field administration has accepted up to 10,000 job applications from people seeking to work in oil companies both temporarily and permanently.”

On Aug. 4, Khalid Hamza Abbas, assistant director of the Basra Oil Company for Administrative Affairs, said to Al Mirbad radio, “The company is preparing a list of the vacant posts that it has,” perhaps as a result of the demonstrators' efforts to pressure local governments and companies into providing more job opportunities.

Four days later, Abbas Maher, administrator of Al-Zubayr district, told Al Mirbad, “The Basra Oil Company has allocated 370 job opportunities for the people of the area, and these posts are distributed among companies working with the oil companies operating under licensing rounds, such as Shams al-Sabah Company, the Arab Industrial Company, the Taaz Company for Protection and Security and the US Halliburton Company.”

Mohammed Zaki Ibrahim, an oil expert at the Ministry of Oil, told Al-Monitor, “The oil companies operating under licensing rounds do not have large workforces in Iraq, as they only employ a few dozen foreign engineers and technicians, including a number of Iraqis. The drilling, employment, production, transfer and export operations, which require lots of labor, are run using purely Iraqi labor belonging to the state-owned oil companies.”

Ibrahim explained, “Allocating 50% of the total labor force to Iraqis basically concerns a small number of security guards, cleaners and service workers … added to the already existing Iraqi and Asian workers. When facing pressure, these [small] companies tend to merely employ an additional number of security guards.”

Despite Ibrahim's assessment, developing a workforce that is 50% Iraqi will not be an easy target to meet. It requires creating new positions, replacing some current employees and training and educating new workers.

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2 hours ago, Pitcher said:

Basra protests spark government scramble to create jobs

ARTICLE SUMMARY

The Iraqi Council of Ministers has approved a regulation requiring that 50% of foreign oil company employees working in the country be Iraqis.

The Iraqi Cabinet announced Aug. 12 that it has approved a regulation by the Ministry of Labor requiring that 50% of foreign oil company employees working in the country be Iraqis. The move followed mass demonstrations in Basra calling for better public services, including clean water and working and reliable electricity, and job opportunities for the unemployed in the city. Iraq's largest oil reserves lie beneath Basra province.

Basra Governor Assaad al-Eidani had on July 31 announced that an agreement had been concluded with the foreign oil companies to secure job opportunities for Basra residents. Days earlier, the Associated Press reported Deputy Governor Dhirgham al-Ajwadi saying that the unemployment rate in Basra, population 4 million, had risen sharply to at least 30%.

On July 13, demonstrators had stormed the headquarters of the Russian oil company LUKOIL at Basra's West Qurna 2 field, one of the largest, leading workers to pack their belongings. A number of them were evacuated by helicopter.

According to Hamza al-Jawahiri, an oil expert at the Ministry of Oil, “[The new regulation] imposes more restrictions on oil companies, which are already voicing concerns [about workers' skills and experience] and have faced tribal threats since 2003.”

Jawahiri told Al-Monitor, “Creating jobs for tribesmen will limit their attempts to obstruct the work of the oil companies. The approach will also offer local workers necessary skills in the oil sector and develop specialized Iraqi cadres. It would be better for companies to work in this direction, even if it leads to their incurring additional costs and exerting more effort.”

Labor Ministry spokesman Ammar Menem confirmed Jawahiri's assessment to Al-Monitor, and added, “Under this provision, Iraq would abstain from disbursing the payments owed to violating companies.” He further remarked, “The Ministry of Labor's regulation will prevent foreign workers from working in Iraq except with a work permit granted by the Department of Foreigners at the ministry. A previous decision issued by the government allowed the director of the Residence Department [at the Ministry of Interior] and the head of operations [for companies] to grant entry permits without consulting the Ministry of Labor.”

The high rate of unemployment is an ongoing issue that prompted Labor Minister Mohammed Shayya al-Sudani to demand on Jan. 11, during a meeting with Zaid Elyaseri, country manager for British Petroleum (BP), that 50% of oil company workforces consist of local employees. Elyaseri confirmed his company's commitment to employ local labor.

On Aug. 7, the Ministry of Labor reported that more than 100,000 foreign workers had been granted entry permits during 2017 and 2018. Assem Jihad, spokesman for the Ministry of Oil, told Al-Monitor, “Under a contract signed May 23 with the Chinese Genghua company, Iraq binds the company to train Iraqi manpower and establish housing units for workers, in addition to service facilities, such as schools and clinics.”

Jihad also asserted, “In the second round of licensing [companies to work in Iraq], the Ministry of Oil required companies to have the local workforce account for more than 85% and sometimes 90% of their total workforce.”

There were no contracts for work in the Basra fields included in the second round of licensing, conduced in December 2009. Jihad also noted, “The contract of the Eastern Baghdad Field was not within the [second] licensing round, which is why its provisions are different from other fields. Yet still, the proportion of domestic labor has been set at 50-80%.”

As for the demonstrations, which began in early July, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said to the Iraqi News Agency on Aug. 7, “The youths in Basra are frustrated at the lack of jobs, but the Oil Ministry alone has provided more than 139,000 jobs for the people of Basra.”

There are practical assurances that serious steps are being taken aimed at engaging Iraqis in oil work. Asaad Aboud al-Mtori, director of the Shaybah Field, which is run by the Iraq National Oil Company in southern Basra, said, “The field administration has accepted up to 10,000 job applications from people seeking to work in oil companies both temporarily and permanently.”

On Aug. 4, Khalid Hamza Abbas, assistant director of the Basra Oil Company for Administrative Affairs, said to Al Mirbad radio, “The company is preparing a list of the vacant posts that it has,” perhaps as a result of the demonstrators' efforts to pressure local governments and companies into providing more job opportunities.

Four days later, Abbas Maher, administrator of Al-Zubayr district, told Al Mirbad, “The Basra Oil Company has allocated 370 job opportunities for the people of the area, and these posts are distributed among companies working with the oil companies operating under licensing rounds, such as Shams al-Sabah Company, the Arab Industrial Company, the Taaz Company for Protection and Security and the US Halliburton Company.”

Mohammed Zaki Ibrahim, an oil expert at the Ministry of Oil, told Al-Monitor, “The oil companies operating under licensing rounds do not have large workforces in Iraq, as they only employ a few dozen foreign engineers and technicians, including a number of Iraqis. The drilling, employment, production, transfer and export operations, which require lots of labor, are run using purely Iraqi labor belonging to the state-owned oil companies.”

Ibrahim explained, “Allocating 50% of the total labor force to Iraqis basically concerns a small number of security guards, cleaners and service workers … added to the already existing Iraqi and Asian workers. When facing pressure, these [small] companies tend to merely employ an additional number of security guards.”

Despite Ibrahim's assessment, developing a workforce that is 50% Iraqi will not be an easy target to meet. It requires creating new positions, replacing some current employees and training and educating new workers.

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I imagine these folks feel that only message theses idiot politicians understand is that “ if we gotta burn the house down with you idiots in it, perhaps we could get your attention ? “

 

Plenty of lip service through the last 15 years and these poor folks keep getting bent over.

[3n1]

10 Years , Pitcher ... u guys need to pull some strings to get the dinar currency purchasing power on that list the demonstrators are demanding ... thanks and looking forward to seeing it high up on the sermon list ... 

Edited August 22, 2018 by 3n1

[Pitcher]

Haha 3n1; great point.  Give the people some purchasing power then they won’t need to work too many hours. 

[yota691]

Video: Cabinet crisis cell for demonstrations launches one billion dinars to support services

 

Friday 24 August

 

 

 

The first billion dinars were transferred to Najaf by the ministerial crisis cell to meet the demands of the demonstrators, the local government did not delay to turn it towards completion of projects that have been stalled for four years.  In this context, Luay al - Yassiri, the governor of Najaf said: " I really today the start of the first of the projects who have been allocations exchange God by the crisis cell in the cabinet this neighborhood has been allocated billion dinars for the completion of the main streets of my Ehna Belchena reached Contractors claimed Ablhun work on a book allocation then praise To God and thanks has become a reality is a message to all the people of the province that the beginning of the work actually implemented. (Spoken words)     With the hope of other financial payments, the contractors took out their mechanisms to complete the projects at a time when citizens welcomed the vision of such practical steps.  A contractor said: "This billion belong to me five streets of the neighborhood and we Balchna first street, which is a main street and important and the rest of the streets respectively, and we like his cable, so we stop working until the project is saved and we hope the local government and the central government to ensure the necessary allocations for the completion of the project. (Talks) and  with the news of the arrival of allocations to the province, they hope to reduce the intensity of the demonstrations that were originally due to the lack of services and the delay in the implementation of most projects.  You can view the report on the video above.

[yota691]

Coordination calls for large demonstrations Friday afternoon

 2018-08-24 09:13:00 

Called the coordination of demonstrations in Baghdad, Basra and southern provinces to demonstrate Friday afternoon.

The coordination stressed the need to increase the momentum of the demonstrations to pressure the federal government to meet the demands of the demonstrators, especially as things get worse without reform in the absence of electricity and water scarcity and pollution.

The coordination condemned the federal and local government in Basra because of water pollution and the injury of thousands of people in the province of poisoning and intestinal colic because of contamination of drinking water

 

[Butifldrm]

 

2018/08/24 10:30

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Abadi adviser: We reached a strategic agreement with Siemens to solve the energy problems

 

 

BAGHDAD, July 24, 2018 - The recent meeting with German firm Siemens has paved the way for a strategic agreement, revealing a three-tiered roadmap, the prime minister's economic adviser said on Friday.

The Council of Ministers discussed with the German company Siemens, Saturday, August 18, 2018, a road map to address the electricity problems in the country. "A new road map has been discussed to address the electricity problems in Iraq with Siemens," the board said in a statement.

"He attended the meeting with the German company Siemens, and it was a big meeting, attended by the director of the Prime Minister's Office and the head of the advisers, and a wide spectrum of agents of the ministries concerned, especially oil, electricity and finance, as well as senior experts of the company."

"A three-tiered short-term road map has been developed to address bottlenecks in terms of fuel alternatives, the medium-term in terms of new gas stations, and the long-term pipeline to 2035," he said.

"What is important to us is the short and medium term," he said, adding that "there is a desire to benefit from Siemens in the electricity sector, and integration with all electricity projects in Iraq, in the field of transport and generation."

"Siemens is a well-established company with roots rooted in Iraq, and we believe that its project is one of the most important and pioneering projects, especially as the story understands the energy situation in the country and its project is in principle applicable."

Saleh revealed that "the meeting also focused on the other aspect is related to the environment, where the huge incineration, especially in the southern regions, which constitute environmental problems, and was discussed on how to convert gas burned gas to serve alternative power stations."

He praised the projects of Siemens, describing them as "integrated", pointing to "the guidance of the Prime Minister to the need to cooperate with this major global company, within the development plans of Iraq," adding that "Iraq is going ahead with plans to apply electricity and there are contracts for the company, and the last meeting is a strategic agreement "He said.

Siemens Plan

http://almasalah.com/ar/news/147807/مستشار-العبادي-توصلنا-الى-اتفاق-استراتيجي-مع-سيمنس-لحل-مشاكل-الطاقة

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https://mobile.twitter.com/IraqiGovt/status/1032976254537015299/video/1

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6ly410, thanks bro...bump this video

[6ly410]

Looking good bro

[Big_J]

GD DV.

[ChuckFinley]

On 8/20/2018 at 8:43 AM, Butifldrm said:

Resources announce the end of the crisis of water scarcity in Iraq

11:43 - 20/08/2018

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Information / Baghdad ..

The Ministry of Water announced on Monday the end of the crisis of water shortage in the country after receiving the water of Qal'a Saleh in Maysan province, stressing that the flow of water now applies in all corridors and rivers,

The Director General of the General Authority for the operation and maintenance of irrigation and drainage projects in the ministry Ali Radhi Thamer, in a statement reported by the Iraqi News Agency and seen by (information), "The water crisis ended in the country," noting that "the flow of water continues from Qal'at Saleh last outlets in the province of Maysan To the province of Basra at a speed of 75 cubic meters per second, which led to the recovery of the reality of water and reduce the proportion of tongue saline.

"The flow of water now applies in all corridors and rivers and tables and poles of the country," adding that "with the arrival of water quotas in the provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar, Maysan, Muthana and Diwaniyah, the water crisis in the country is over." Ending / 25

http://www.almaalomah.com/2018/08/20/336804/

 

[Pitcher]

Official: Debt of Basra province amounts to 160 billion Iraqi dinars

Member of Basra Provincial Council Karim Shawak said on Friday that the province suffers from the accumulation of debt, which amounts to 160 billion Iraqi dinars, since the era of its former governor Majid Nasrawi.

 

In a press statement, Shawak explained that the council is unable to serve its citizens because it is run by party leaders and political blocs in Baghdad, describing the council as a “failure”.

 

A number of Iraqi cities and provinces, including Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Babil, Diwaniyah, Wassit, Najaf, Muthanna and Karbala are witnessing mass demonstrations and sit-ins to protest against shortage of jobs, electricity, water and basic services.

 

This comes as sources said the situation in southern Iraq is getting out of control as angry protests are taking control of the provinces. Activists expressed concern the IRGC militia exploits the ongoing turmoil to spread terror and hamper oil transfers.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/30913/Official-Debt-of-Basra-province-amounts-to-160-billion-Iraqi-dinars

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Pitcher. The citizens should take to the streets.

[alreis]

Time to impound politicians bank accounts, all of them.

Require the account owners to show paper trail of there assets and funds.

Time for across the board lifestyle audits?

Edited August 24, 2018 by alreis

[dinareffic]

Abadi: We have developed plans to find alternative revenues for oil

The face of the formation of a committee to investigate those accused of corruption in the security services of Baghdad / morning new Prime Minister, Haider al - Abadi, confirmed that Iraq will prevail in the reconstruction and job creation, noting that he has been developing new plans to find alternative oil revenues, while pointed out that the government aspires To build a strong Iraqi economy in cooperation with neighboring countries, he directed the formation of a permanent central investigation committee responsible for the investigation of employees of ministries and security agencies accused of corruption and extortion of citizens.

"Iraq will win again in reconstruction, construction and job creation by uniting us just as we did in the war to promote and achieve security and stability," Abadi said in a speech to the Iraqi Economic Development Conference.

Abadi praised "efforts to develop Iraq, which he expressed in Iraq first," noting that "this expression is not directed against any other country, but is a reason for cooperation with these countries for the benefit of Iraq."

"Iraq first means more development, job creation, investment and economic development," Abadi said. "Iraq has been through wars and siege, so it does not stand with the siege of any country as a result of what happened to the citizens of Iraq before."

The Prime Minister pointed out that "the demands of citizens are being responded to and in each session of the Council of Ministers are issuing decisions to a number of provinces and we have formed the Committee of reconstruction and services to consider these requests and implementation."

Abadi said that "Iraq needs alternatives to oil because dependence on it will be a complete imbalance, noting that the government has developed new plans to find alternative revenues for oil as well as benefit from the associated gas, which was burning."

 http://www.alsabaah.iq/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=161873

[Butifldrm]

Call for the declaration of Basra "affected" .. Change the color of water and overcrowded hospitals with poisoning

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 26/08/2018 - 21:09

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The city of Basra is facing a new chapter in the series of "tragedies" that have taken place this year. After the record rise in temperature, low water levels and deterioration of public services, the city faces a "humanitarian disaster". The population has been overcrowded in hospitals over the last few days.

The Basra Human Rights Commission described the situation in the province as "serious" due to high salinity and increased pollution, noting that the government did not record any action equivalent to the magnitude of the disaster.   

          
"In view of the serious and delicate conditions in the province of Basra these days of high saline tongue, and increased pollution, which led to injuries to thousands of citizens, no government action was recorded equivalent to the magnitude of the disaster."  

The Commission called on the central government represented by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to "move with the ministers of health, environment and water resources to Basra to stand on this disaster and reassurance to its people who are preparing the greatest wealth and those who are ravaged by pollution and lack of medicines," the prime minister called for " By all human standards. "

Popular anger and shocking images

The pioneers of social networking sites published "shocking" videos of the rivers in the areas of and around Basra, including the city of Abu al-Khasib, where the river turns red because of the saturation of contaminated materials.

The label "Basra is crying out" and "Basra is dying" on Twitter, amid the great anger of the population of the city and the people of Iraq in general on the deterioration of the situation.

Images of river water in Basra and daily use water, which are clearly contaminated, have emerged as a brownish phenomenon.

Photos and videos posted on social networking sites also show overcrowded hospitals with poisoned citizens, while hospitals suffer from a lack of services.

According to the data on social networking sites, activists sent a distress call to all countries of the world, and to all embassies and consulates in Iraq, because of the overcrowded hospitals in Basra due to poisoning by salt water, and the death of cattle and fish in the province.

"Standard" pollution and the silence of the government

Basra is one of the wealthiest provinces in Iraq with natural resources such as oil and gas, and is considered the only port of Iraq.

The Health Control Division of the Basra Health Department revealed the high rate of pollution in the province's sewage water very much. "The chemical pollution in the water is 100% and the bacterial contamination is 50%." As well as environmental pollution due to smoke and gas emissions from oil wells. 
For her part, confirmed the former deputy of the province of Basra, Fatima Zarkani, "pollution of the province's water and people refrain from drinking," calling on the government to "expeditiously save the population from this disaster." 
In a press statement, a member of the provincial council of Basra, Karim Shawak, earlier this week, more than 4,000 people were infected with diarrhea due to contaminated water.

While the Department of Health of Basra poisoned as a result of drinking polluted water transported by the pelvic vehicles provided by the government to solve the problem of water in the province.

According to the Health Department, the percentage of chlorine in most desalination plants is zero percent.

Thousands of people from the province of Basra have been taking out protests since July 14 to demand better services and address the problem of water salinity

An official at the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed earlier this month that the cultivated areas in the country fell by half, compared to last year, following the drought and the low levels of the Tigris and Euphrates.

Iran and Turkey

Iraq, dubbed "Mesopotamia" by the Tigris and Euphrates, suffers from water scarcity, which has suffered a significant drop in the number of years.

Apart from the lack of rainfall, the main cause of the drought remains the diversion and cutting of rivers flowing into the Tigris and the Euphrates by Turkey and Iran, experts say.

Turkey has recently started operating the Alesso dam on the Tigris River, which is a blow to agriculture in Iraq, whose repercussions will appear in various aspects of life.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/ar/news/iraq/461327

[yota691]

Abadi donates water to Basra

Release Date: 2018/8/27 9:11 • 373 times read

[Ayna-Baghdad] 
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi participated in a relief campaign to provide drinking water to the province of Basra, which suffers from pollution in the water and high salinity.

"In the name of the Ministry of Education, we thank Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for being the first donor of a campaign that we desire for our people in Basra and to guide it by providing appropriate facilities for the success of the campaign," said a statement issued by the Ministry of Education. 
The Ministry of Education announced on Sunday the launch of the campaign in partnership with the Voice of Women Educational Organization and calls on all ministries and international and local bodies and organizations, public opinion leaders and all citizens to participate in the relief campaign and support them with all possible efforts to help the people of Basra. 
The province of Basra for weeks has been a suffocating crisis in the scarcity of drinking water because of the percentage of salinity and pollution of water and the expansion of the brine tongue of the Gulf across the Shatt al-Arab amid the inability of the local governments and the federal to find quick solutions to the crisis.
Basra hospitals recorded more than 10,000 cases of diarrhea, vomiting and septicemia due to water salinity. 
The supreme religious authority called for finding an appropriate and quick solution to end the suffering of the province of Basra. 
The representative of the supreme authority in Karbala, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai said in a sermon last Friday prayers "citizens continue to complain in the province of Basra heavy tanker suffering from the acute shortage of drinking water and the lack of validity of water, even for bathing and other human use has resulted from the use of some citizens of water "Many of them are infected with poisoning and some skin diseases."
"Despite repeated appeals to the religious authority and others, efforts to find a solution to this dilemma, albeit temporarily, remain below the minimum, and it is very unfortunate that this humanitarian crisis to this day does not find the appropriate attention by the competent government agencies, Blame others and blame him for negligence in this file. " 
"The humanitarian, national and legitimate duty requires the concerned parties and departments to cooperate and coordinate among themselves in order to put an end to the suffering of Basra and find a suitable solution to their problem, which is possible if there is serious will and sincere intention and attention of the officials of the central and local governments, And they made firm and urgent decisions without routine procedures and conflict of powers. "

[Butifldrm]

2018-08-27 BY SOTALIRAQ

 

Basra .. poisoning 500 people because of water and the closure of 100 filter stations

 

 

Translated by Hamid Ahmed

Health authorities in the city of Basra have closed at least 100 unlicensed desalination plants following the spread of diarrhea and other symptoms among the local population. 
Zaki Abdel Sada, head of the inspection department in the Basra Health Department told a news conference that the province has witnessed a serious state of water pollution in recent days led to the spread of diarrhea and acute intestinal infections among people. 
"Basra has seen a number of cases of diarrhea due to water pollution and our inspection department has launched a campaign to combat this pollution," Abdul Sada said. " 
At least 500 people have been treated in hospital for diarrhea due to water pollution. 
"Our ongoing investigations have resulted in the closure of a number of unlicensed water purification plants that were not working properly. Despite the poor performance of their work, they do not have any license to do this work. "
Meanwhile, health officials have advised locals to follow health guidelines and boil water before consumption. 
According to local reports, more than 4,000 people were tested in the city's four main hospitals over a period of just a week, and common symptoms among patients were diarrhea and vomiting. 
The news came only weeks after protests broke out in Basra and other southern cities where protesters took to the streets to express their displeasure at the lack of clean water and other basic services. 
On the other hand, the representative of the reference devoted his sermon last Friday to criticize the Iraqi government for its failure to solve the problem of the waters of Basra.
Representative Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai said in his speech that "humanitarian, national and religious duties call on the authorities and institutions concerned to work together to end the suffering of the people of Basra. We also call on the government to find a permanent solution to the problem of water pollution. " 
Khalid Ali, a local Basra resident, said:" This situation is the result of the negligence and corruption of the political elite in the country. The 
Basra Health Department issued a report last Tuesday on the quality of drinking water in the city. The report stated that the water is 100% chemically contaminated and that its bacterial contamination is 50% and that chlorine has not been used to treat Water desalination plants. 
Ammar Hussain, a patient who recently left the hospital, said hospitals had not been able to absorb the huge influx due to illness cases involving children suffering from poisoning.
"I spent a few days in the hospital because of persistent intestinal pain. I had no choice but to drink water from the tap. What should I do? Most people do not have access to bottled water at high prices. "

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Basrah health records 17,000 cases of intestinal colic, more than 15% of which are suspected of cholera

BASRA, Aug 28 (KUNA) - Basra Health Department has renewed its warning of the risk of cholera infection if water salinity continues to rise, especially by the fall of September, One thousand cases of gastrointestinal colic, 16.5% of which have symptoms of cholera but have not been confirmed in the disease.

"The Abu Haseeb Hospital in Basra receives more than 400 cases of poisoning every day because of water pollution," the Human Rights Commission said.

She pointed out that "the delegation of the High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq inspected the hospital of Abu al-Khasib General and met dozens of citizens suffering from water pollution due to the serious humanitarian crisis in the province of Basra, and stop the delegation of the delegation on multiple humanitarian cases, including entire families, and documented through his office in conservative statements and reports of citizens who filed complaints against the perpetrators of this case, "  indicating that" Alospi receives more than 400 cases of poisoning due to contaminated water the only general hospital , which receives residents of the judiciary's nearly 450 thousand people since the crisis began on 1 2 of this month has been the delegation to monitor the situation and the lack of customizations and medical staff working in it. Finished

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Government media: allocated 977 billion dinars to ten provinces

01:34 - 28/08/2018

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
The government information channel announced on Tuesday the allocation of 977 billion dinars to the provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Muthanna, Maysan, Diwaniyah, Baghdad, Wasit, Babel and Karbala. 
"In implementation of the directives of the Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers allocated 977 billion dinars dinars to the provinces of (Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf, Muthanna, Maysan, Diwaniya, Baghdad, Wasit, Babylon, and Karbala Holy ) To meet their needs. " 
"The allocation includes addressing the problems of sectors (water, electricity, sanitation, municipalities / roads and bridges, health, education, water resources, industry, storage / siloat, poverty alleviation projects, ).
"He also stressed the solution to the problem of water pollution in the province of Basra and accelerate the meeting of needs to provide the best services for the people of the province, has been allocated three million dollars to support water projects within the budget development of regions. 
The Prime Minister called earlier on the need to meet the demands of the people of the provinces and address the water problems in the province of Basra urgently and the announcement of grades, and the inclusion of graduates of the educational initiative of the holders of higher degrees of appointment in the provinces, and the formation of a committee to address the endowments in the stalled projects, Provide the best to the sons of all Iraqi provinces