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Iraq’s water, land crises could displace 4m people

 

Experts have warned that the future securitycrisis in Iraq could be triggered by the destruction of agricultural land due to the chronic shortage of water, especially in rural areas, which could lead to the displacement of 4 million people.

Iraq is currently losing about 250 square kilometers of land annually to desertification, mostly in the south, according to the United Nations Environment Program.

The causes of the water crisis are numerous in rural areas, but most are because of the decline in the water levels of Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to climate change and international dams. The fading agricultural land will trigger a displacement crisis that goes beyond what Iraqis have suffered in the three-and-a-half-year war against ISIS.

Experts warn that this will put enormous pressure on urban centers and contribute to the deterioration of the security situation, which is already volatile, possibly leading to a new conflict.

Environment Ministry officials expect about 4 million people to be displaced over the next eight years because of the water crisis if drastic measures are not taken.
 
 
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  • yota691 changed the title to Iran announces cutting off water supplies from Iraq

Iran announces cutting off water supplies from Iraq

In confirmation of their design on the project of transforming the course of rivers
Thursday - 1 Safar 1440 AH - 11 October 2018 AD Issue Number [14562]
 
 
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A water storage project in Basra, where residents are suffering from water shortages and rising salinity (Reuters)
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The head of the General Federation of Agricultural Societies in Iraq, Haider Abadi, the lack of access to any large quantities of water from Iran to Iraq about three years ago, expressing surprise at the speech, which pointed to the Iranian side cut off water, which was denied by the Deputy Iranian Ambassador in Iraq Moussa Pharmacists. 

The disruption of water from Iran to Iraqi territory is exacerbating the problems of some cities, mainly Basra, which has poisoned thousands of people in the past few weeks due to pollution of drinking water in the city.

Iranian Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ali Murad Akbari said his country would cut about 7 billion cubic meters of water towards the western and northwestern Iraqi borders, on the orders of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He stressed that these quantities of water will be used in three major projects on an area of 770 thousand hectares in Ahwaz (southwest of the country), and Elam (west). He pointed out that the impact of these projects on increasing the sustainability of agricultural production in the country, explaining that «water scarcity is one of the serious threats that we are facing and we think to solve and control». 

For years, the Iranian government has been implementing a project to build dams and tunnels to transform the Karun and Karakha waterways and to establish a new irrigation system in Arab-dominated areas that can be controlled through industrial channels. The project is supervised by companies linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, with the participation of the Iranian Ministry of Energy.

The Iranian official's statement is an implicit confirmation that the Iranian government is determined to implement the river diversion project to Iranian provinces east of the Zagros Mountains. 

Earlier, Iran cut water from most of the tributaries of its Tigris River in Iraq, causing water levels to fall dramatically in the river. Which caused a problem in supplying the people of the town of Qalza Daza (north of Sulaymaniyah) with drinking water. Iran also built the Kolsa dam in Sardasht, in eastern Kurdistan, causing a large section of the strategic Zab River to be cut off. In addition to the problem of cutting drinking water from the inhabitants of Qalqat Daza, the cutting of the river has killed tens of thousands of fish and caused significant environmental damage.

Since June, salinity has increased from the Arabian Gulf to the north of the Shatt al-Arab River, the only source of water for the province of Basra. The back problem of the high rate of salinity of the water in the Shatt al - Arab to 2000 by the implementation of the discharge of water from agricultural land project in the framework of a government project for the cultivation of sugar cane along the 125 km border between the city of Ahwaz and Abadan; which led to popular protests in 2001. 

The River Karun, the largest river in Iranian territory, the third leg of the Shatt al-Arab, along with the Tigris and Euphrates, was one of the reasons for the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq because of their differences on the right to divide the river line after the Algiers agreement.

But the deputy Iranian ambassador in Iraq Tabatabai denied in press statements yesterday, cutting off such a quantity of water from Iraq, expressing surprise at the news circulated by the media, stressing that it is unfounded. Tabatabai said that «Iran can not cut that amount of water border from Iraq without agreement with the authorities in this regard by virtue of the Convention signed between the two countries in this regard since 1975 of the last century». "The fact that Iranian Agriculture Minister Ali Murad Akbari said at the Conference on the Role of Culture in the Philosophical Religion is that Khamenei has allocated a sum to transfer water from the central rivers of Sistan and Baluchistan," he said, quoting media reports about Akbari. From "Wrong translations of Akbari's speech during the conference."

But the head of the Iraqi agricultural associations Haider Abadi, for his part, expressed surprise at the existence of such quantity of water already. "About three years ago, our revenues from water from Iran are approaching zero," Abbadi told Asharq Al-Awsat. "How do we understand how to cut this amount now?" He explained that «the Iranians have already diverted water streams and no longer reach us from them significant amounts». He explained that «some quantities of water come at the back of the Tigris River not in front of us to benefit from, as well as that this amount salty and go directly to the Shatt al-Arab, which exacerbates the crisis of salinity we are already suffering».
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Saleh Ughlu: This is water for the Iraqis

 

Saleh's policy for Oglu: This is water for the Iraqis

 

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President of the Republic Barham Salih said that water is a vital and crucial issue for the huge preparation of the Iraqi population, calling for strategic agreements during the meeting in Baghdad with Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Chaochoglu. 
According to a presidential statement, Saleh stressed Iraq's keenness to develop historic and vital good-neighborly relations between the two countries in all fields and seek to build balanced and fruitful relations with Turkey and all neighboring countries on the basis of mutual interests and respect for national sovereignty, pointing out that regional cooperation in the face of terrorism constitutes a solid guarantee To protect international peace and security. 
He stressed the keenness of Iraq to develop its historical and vital relations with Turkey and its friendly people, stressing the need for permanent strategic agreements on water, considering that the issue of water is a vital issue and crucial for the huge numbers of the population of Iraq between Anbar and Basra
President Barham Salih stressed his country's priority to strengthen bilateral relations and joint security and economic interests through the joint committee of the two neighboring countries and the permanent consultation on regional and international issues. He expressed confidence in the ability to make Iraqi-Turkish relations a source of good and stability for the whole region. Area between the two countries. 
For his part, the Turkish Foreign Minister stressed his country's readiness to develop constructive strategic relations with Iraq in the field of water and all other fields and its interest in supporting its unity, sovereignty and solidarity with the Iraqi people in all its components. He pointed out that constructive cooperation between the two countries is positively reflected on achieving common interests and contributing to establishing security and stability in Region.

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  • yota691 changed the title to 75% of the territory of Diyala province damaged by the water dams of neighboring countries
 
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A member of the Diyala provincial council, Hakki al-Jubouri, said Tuesday that dams established by neighboring countries, Iran and Turkey, damaged the agricultural land of the province.

Iran's five-year plan includes the construction of 109 dams on the shared water tributaries with Iraq, at a cost of 150 trillion riyals.

Jubouri said in an interview with "Economy News", that the dams that arise from neighboring countries affected Iraq's water quotas, which affects the Iraqi economy in general.

He added that "the proportion of affected agricultural land of Diyala province of the dams of neighboring countries up to 75%," noting the need for the prior planning of the federal government to intervene and hold cycles with countries that exceed Iraq's water quotas.

It is noteworthy that 30 tributaries of the tributaries of the Tigris stem from Iran and feed the river by 12%.


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  • yota691 changed the title to Arab Water Council launches an important warning

Arab Water Council launches an important warning

Arab Water Council launches an important warning
Council: More than 60% of the river water in the Arab region comes from outside
 18 November 2018 05:04 PM

Mubasher: The Arab Water Council warned of the water crisis in the Arab region during the discussion of the work plan for the period 2019-2021 .

The Arab Council said Sunday that the Arab region has only 1 percent of the world's fresh water, according to the Middle East News Agency (MENA ).

More than 60 percent of the river's water comes from outside the region, and 40 percent of its population lives in water scarcity, he said, noting that 14 Arab countries are among the world's most water-scarce countries .

He stressed that the water crisis in the Arab region are clear and accurate and do not require astatement or detail .

The head of the Arab Council, Mahmoud Abu Zeid, that water security is a safer national, which requires the preparation of a clear collective strategy and policy integrative comprehensive collective management and planning joint coordination with the support of all those interested in more than one scope of work; to address the risks facing the whole world water crisis .

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  • yota691 changed the title to Iraq announces the rise of water reservoirs Mosul dam

Iraq announces the rise of water reservoirs Mosul dam

Iraq announces the rise of water reservoirs Mosul dam
 



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The Ministry of Water Resources announced the rise of strategic reservoirs in the lake of Mosul Dam after receiving waves of floods and rains in amounts up to 1370 m3 / s.

The ministry said in a statement to the News Agency that the flood wave is going smoothly from Irqat with a quantity of 1,700 m3 / s, while it will be directed towards Baiji district and up to 1200 m3 / s, and from it to Samarra in preparation for its transfer to Lake Tharthar and add it to strategic reservoirs.

The ministry expects the water reserves to reach 400 million cubic meters in the lake of the Mosul Dam.

In the same context, the ministry confirmed that the capital Baghdad and the southern provinces are satisfied with the current quotas of water, following the receipt of additional quantities of rainfall falling during the last period, which led to a decrease in salt concentrations in the Shatt al-Arab.

The ministry has diverted large amounts of rainwater and rain towards the marshes to boost its water quota in order to maintain stable levels in the marshes.

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  • yota691 changed the title to Water resources: Water reservoirs in lakes and reservoirs exceeded 18.5 billion cubic meters

Water resources: Water reservoirs in lakes and reservoirs exceeded 18.5 billion cubic meters

 
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The Ministry of Water Resources confirmed that water reservoirs in lakes and reservoirs exceeded 18.5 billion cubic meters, attributed to the rains and floods witnessed by the country, noting that the percentage of drowning in the marshes exceeded 60%. "As a result of the torrential rain and floods in the country, water reservoirs in dams and reservoirs have exceeded 18.5 billion 3," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry added that " The northern and eastern regions are witnessing moderate rain with snow, especially in the northern regions, and the ministry is reassuring citizens and farmers about securing water needs for all purposes during the current winter season and next summer with the emphasis that Shatt al-Arab is returning to its status. Natural after the drop in the proportion of salts in its waters in all regions from Qurna to FAO and that what happened last year of increasing salts in the Shatt al-Arab will not be repeated in the coming summer as a result of abundance in water reservoirs. "The ministry said that" In the marshes exceeded 60% and there are still quantities of water flowing in the direction of the marshes as a result of floods coming from the eastern side in the provinces of Wasit and Maysan.

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They might look at a northern neighbor for some guidance.......

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/

 

One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs

 
 
 

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here Sorek Desalination Plant.  Credit: Photo courtesy of IDE Technologies.

From Ensia (find the original story here); reprinted with permission.

July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.republished.php?title=How%20a%20new%20so

 

“Now, that’s a pump!” Edo Bar-Zeev shouts to me over the din of the motors, grinning with undisguised awe at the scene before us. The reservoirs beneath us contain several feet of sand through which the seawater filters before making its way to a vast metal hangar, where it is transformed into enough drinking water to supply 1.5 million people.

 

We are standing above the new Sorek desalination plant, the largest reverse-osmosis desal facility in the world, and we are staring at Israel’s salvation. Just a few years ago, in the depths of its worst drought in at least 900 years, Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

 

Bar-Zeev, who recently joined Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research after completing his postdoc work at Yale University, is an expert on biofouling, which has always been an Achilles’ heel of desalination and one of the reasons it has been considered a last resort. Desal works by pushing saltwater into membranes containing microscopic pores. The water gets through, while the larger salt molecules are left behind. But microorganisms in seawater quickly colonize the membranes and block the pores, and controlling them requires periodic costly and chemical-intensive cleaning. But Bar-Zeev and colleagues developed a chemical-free system using porous lava stone to capture the microorganisms before they reach the membranes. It’s just one of many breakthroughs in membrane technology that have made desalination much more efficient. Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants.

 

Driven by necessity, Israel is learning to squeeze more out of a drop of water than any country on Earth, and much of that learning is happening at the Zuckerberg Institute, where researchers have pioneered new techniques in drip irrigation, water treatment and desalination. They have developed resilient well systems for African villages and biological digesters than can halve the water usage of most homes.

 

The institute’s original mission was to improve life in Israel’s bone-dry Negev Desert, but the lessons look increasingly applicable to the entire Fertile Crescent. “The Middle East is drying up,” says Osnat Gillor, a professor at the Zuckerberg Institute who studies the use of recycled wastewater on crops. “The only country that isn’t suffering acute water stress is Israel.”

 

That water stress has been a major factor in the turmoil tearing apart the Middle East, but Bar-Zeev believes that Israel’s solutions can help its parched neighbors, too — and in the process, bring together old enemies in common cause.

 

Bar-Zeev acknowledges that water will likely be a source of conflict in the Middle East in the future. “But I believe water can be a bridge, through joint ventures,” he says. “And one of those ventures is desalination.”

DRIVEN TO DESPERATION

In 2008, Israel teetered on the edge of catastrophe. A decade-long drought had scorched the Fertile Crescent, and Israel’s largest source of freshwater, the Sea of Galilee, had dropped to within inches of the “black line” at which irreversible salt infiltration would flood the lake and ruin it forever. Water restrictions were imposed, and many farmers lost a year’s crops.

 

Their counterparts in Syria fared much worse. As the drought intensified and the water table plunged, Syria’s farmers chased it, drilling wells 100, 200, then 500 meters (300, 700, then 1,600 feet) down in a literal race to the bottom. Eventually, the wells ran dry and Syria’s farmland collapsed in an epic dust storm. More than a million farmers joined massive shantytowns on the outskirts of Aleppo, Homs, Damascus and other cities in a futile attempt to find work and purpose.

 

And that, according to the authors of “Climate Change in the Fertile Crescent and Implications of the Recent Syrian Drought,” a 2015 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was the tinder that burned Syria to the ground. “The rapidly growing urban peripheries of Syria,” they wrote, “marked by illegal settlements, overcrowding, poor infrastructure, unemployment, and crime, were neglected by the Assad government and became the heart of the developing unrest.”

 

Similar stories are playing out across the Middle East, where drought and agricultural collapse have produced a lost generation with no prospects and simmering resentments. Iran, Iraq and Jordan all face water catastrophes. Water is driving the entire region to desperate acts.

 

MORE WATER THAN NEEDS

Except Israel. Amazingly, Israel has more water than it needs. The turnaround started in 2007, when low-flow toilets and showerheads were installed nationwide and the national water authority built innovative water treatment systems that recapture 86 percent of the water that goes down the drain and use it for irrigation — vastly more than the second-most-efficient country in the world, Spain, which recycles 19 percent.

 

 

But even with those measures, Israel still needed about 1.9 billion cubic meters (2.5 billion cubic yards) of freshwater per year and was getting just 1.4 billion cubic meters (1.8 billion cubic yards) from natural sources. That 500-million-cubic-meter (650-million-cubic-yard) shortfall was why the Sea of Galilee was draining like an unplugged tub and why the country was about to lose its farms.

 

Enter desalination. The Ashkelon plant, in 2005, provided 127 million cubic meters (166 million cubic yards) of water. Hadera, in 2009, put out another 140 million cubic meters (183 million cubic yards). And now Sorek, 150 million cubic meters (196 million cubic yards). All told, desal plants can provide some 600 million cubic meters (785 million cubic yards) of water a year, and more are on the way.

The Sea of Galilee is fuller. Israel’s farms are thriving. And the country faces a previously unfathomable question: What to do with its extra water?

WATER DIPLOMACY

Inside Sorek, 50,000 membranes enclosed in vertical white cylinders, each 4 feet high and 16 inches wide, are whirring like jet engines. The whole thing feels like a throbbing spaceship about to blast off. The cylinders contain sheets of plastic membranes wrapped around a central pipe, and the membranes are stippled with pores less than a hundredth the diameter of a human hair. Water shoots into the cylinders at a pressure of 70 atmospheres and is pushed through the membranes, while the remaining brine is returned to the sea.

 

Desalination used to be an expensive energy hog, but the kind of advanced technologies being employed at Sorek have been a game changer. Water produced by desalination costs just a third of what it did in the 1990s. Sorek can produce a thousand liters of drinking water for 58 cents. Israeli households pay about US$30 a month for their water — similar to households in most U.S. cities, and far less than Las Vegas (US$47) or Los Angeles (US$58).

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The International Desalination Association claims that 300 million people get water from desalination, and that number is quickly rising. IDE, the Israeli company that built Ashkelon, Hadera and Sorek, recently finished the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California, a close cousin of its Israel plants, and it has many more in the works. Worldwide, the equivalent of six additional Sorek plants are coming online every year. The desalination era is here.

 

What excites Bar-Zeev the most is the opportunity for water diplomacy. Israel supplies the West Bank with water, as required by the 1995 Oslo II Accords, but the Palestinians still receive far less than they need. Water has been entangled with other negotiations in the ill-fated peace process, but now that more is at hand, many observers see the opportunity to depoliticize it. Bar-Zeev has ambitious plans for a Water Knows No Boundaries conference in 2018, which will bring together water scientists from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza for a meeting of the minds.

 

Even more ambitious is the US$900 million Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal, a joint venture between Israel and Jordan to build a large desalination plant on the Red Sea, where they share a border, and divide the water among Israelis, Jordanians and the Palestinians. The brine discharge from the plant will be piped 100 miles north through Jordan to replenish the Dead Sea, which has been dropping a meter per year since the two countries began diverting the only river that feeds it in the 1960s. By 2020, these old foes will be drinking from the same tap.

 

On the far end of the Sorek plant, Bar-Zeev and I get to share a tap as well. Branching off from the main line where the Sorek water enters the Israeli grid is a simple spigot, a paper cup dispenser beside it. I open the tap and drink cup after cup of what was the Mediterranean Sea 40 minutes ago. It tastes cold, clear and miraculous.

 

The contrasts couldn’t be starker. A few miles from here, water disappeared and civilization crumbled. Here, a galvanized civilization created water from nothingness. As Bar-Zeev and I drink deep, and the climate sizzles, I wonder which of these stories will be the exception, and which the rule. View Ensia homepage

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Great Article . . . but Iraq taking this page ( if they were smart they would ) out of the Israeli Play Book . . . very doubtful, however, one never knows what one may read about tomorrow, does one ?

 

Hell . . . why aren't we doing this ? ! ? 

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  • yota691 changed the title to The Iraqi concern comes back with Turkey's intention to fill the Eliso dam in June
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Turkey announced that it will fill the reservoir of the dam Eliso on the Tigris River in June, a move that will affect the abundance of water in Iraq and comes after the postponement last year, more than once, was scheduled to fill the dam in June 2018. After the Iraqi government protested at the start The water was briefly trapped behind the dam before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the delay in filling the dam because of the simultaneous detention of water with the month of Ramadan.

Speaking at a rally in the southeastern city of Mardin near the dam as part of a ruling AK Party campaign for local elections at the end of March, Erdogan said the process of filling the dam would begin in June.

"The project will contribute 1.5 billion lire, about $ 300 million a year in the Turkish economy," Erdogan said.

The Iraqi government says that "the Elso dam will lead to water scarcity because it will reduce the flow of water in the Tigris River, one of the two rivers on which the country relies most of its water. Since last year, water shortages in Iraq have led to measures such as banning rice cultivation, To abandon their land The city of Basra has seen protests for months because of the lack of potable water.

Turkey has repeatedly delayed filling a dam with instructions from Erdogan after the Iraqi government's request. In October, Turkey agreed to increase water pumping to all of Iraq's provinces, including Basra in particular.

The construction of the Ellisu dam cost $ 1.6 billion, one of 22 dams along the border with Iraq in the Turkish states of Charnach and Mardin, part of the southeastern Anatolia Development Project, aimed at flood control and water storage. The Eliseo dam, which is 135 meters high and 2 km wide, provides electricity of 1.200 megawatts and has a capacity of 10.4 billion cubic meters of water. But it will affect Iraq's share of water.

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Iraq does not have clear strategies and future planning to tackle water crises, the head of the Iraqi Strategic Studies Group, Wathiq al-Hashemi, said on Saturday.

"Iraq has not been able to achieve its objectives from the agreement of the riparian countries to divide the water, in addition to the lack of commitment of Turkey," Hashemi said in a statement to the news agency.

"There is currently an abundance of water because of the rainfall this year, and this abundance is pushing Iraq to safety for the year 2020 only, but in the case of low rainfall and filling Turkey to fill Alissu, Iraq will suffer water."

He added that "the Iraqi visits to Turkey was a protocol and did not come to an important agreement on this side and Turkey has given Iraq a period, but now is going to fill the dam, it is back to a strong economy will not be overpowered."

He added that "one of the serious problems is also the lack of a clear strategy for the disposal of water, there is poor storage, in addition to Iraq did not work on the construction of new dams and the reconstruction of old dams and thus all these problems warning us of future crises if the situation is not remedied."

Turkey has announced that it will fill the reservoir of the dam Eliso on the Tigris River in June, a move that will affect the abundance of water in Iraq and comes after the postponement last year, more than once, was scheduled to fill the dam in June 2018.

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 2019-03-18 BY SOTALIRAQ

The dams of the region are filled with water for the first time in 25 years

 

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According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government, since the beginning of the fall of this year until March and because of high rainfall and snow, the level of water above the surface of the territory in the region to 20% and approached to 10% compared to last year.

According to the statistics of the ministry, the level of water under the surface of the earth rose in some areas more than 10 meters and the proportion of rainfall compared to last year rose from 70% to 80%. 
"All the dams in the Kurdistan region have been filled with water during the rain in this chapter so far and a large proportion of the water has been collected in a way that did not collect water in the dams of the Kurdistan region for the first time in 25 years," said Akram Ahmed, . 
"The Dokan Dam now contains more than six billion cubic meters of water and the water in the lake has risen 508 meters from its level, with water rising by 10 meters compared to last year," Ahmed said.

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https://www.sotaliraq.com/2019/03/18/سدود-الاقليم-تمتلئ-بالمياه-لأول-مرة-من/

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  • yota691 changed the title to Iraq and France sign memorandum of understanding to support water projects in the amount of 250 thousand euros
 
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announced the Ministry of Planning, Sunday, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to support water projects in the amount of 250 thousand euros, while France announced that this grant will help the Iraqi government to rebuild the country. 

"A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the French Development Agency (AFD) as a grant of 250,000 euros," the ministry's undersecretary said in a statement. "The memo concerns the provision of technical assistance in relation to the water sector in Iraq."

 


He added that "this grant will be provided to the Iraqi authorities in coordination with the Ministry of Planning in addition to providing expertise in the implementation of water projects," pointing out that "Iraq needs such assistance and grants for the purpose of implementing projects and infrastructure in addition to Iraq's need to provide technical expertise and develop the capabilities of workers In areas ". 

For his part, French Ambassador to Iraq Bruno Ober said that "the signing of this agreement shows France's interest in the water issue in Iraq, which is a development and development issue in all regions of the country," adding that "French expertise is great and well known in the field of water through companies, experts and researchers on World level as it is part of the activities of the French Development Agency. " 

"These studies are useful for the government in identifying needs and strategies in the water issue and thus will help the Iraqi government rebuild the country," he said.

On January 14, 2019, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi thanked France's position to cancel the debts owed by Iraq through the Paris Club and put forward a twinning proposal between the cities of Paris and Baghdad.

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Iraq, France sign memorandum to support water projects

The Ministry of Planning announced on Sunday, March 24, 2019, the signing of a memorandum of understanding to support water projects amounting to 250 thousand euros, while France announced that this grant will help the Iraqi government to rebuild the country. 

"A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the French Development Agency (AFD) as a grant of 250,000 euros," the ministry said in a statement.

He added that "this grant will be provided to the Iraqi authorities in coordination with the Ministry of Planning in addition to providing expertise in the implementation of water projects," pointing out that "Iraq needs such assistance and grants for the purpose of implementing projects and infrastructure in addition to Iraq's need to provide technical expertise and develop the capabilities of workers In areas ". 

For his part, French Ambassador to Iraq Bruno Ober said that "the signing of this agreement shows France's interest in the water issue in Iraq, which is a development and development issue in all regions of the country," adding that "French expertise is great and well known in the field of water through companies, experts and researchers on World level as it is part of the activities of the French Development Agency. " 

"These studies are useful for the government in identifying needs and strategies in the water issue and thus will help the Iraqi government rebuild the country," he said.

 

 

 
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Alsumaria News / Baghdad
announced the Ministry of Planning, Sunday, announced the signing of a memorandum ofunderstanding to support water projects in the amount of 250 thousand euros, while declared France that this grant will help the Iraqi government to rebuild thecountry. 

"A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the French Development Agency (AFD) as a grant of 250,000 euros," the ministry's undersecretary said in a statement . "The memo concerns the provision of technical assistance in relation to the water sector inIraq ." 

He added that "this grant will be provided to Iraqi authorities in coordination with the Ministry of Planning in addition to providing expertise in the implementation of water projects," pointing out that
For his part, French Ambassador to Iraq Bruno Ober said that "the signing of this agreement shows France's interest in the water issue in Iraq, which is a development and development issue in all regions of the country," adding that "French expertise is great and well known in the field of water through companies, experts and researchers on World level as it is part of the activities of the French Development Agency. " 

"These studies are useful for the government in identifying needs and strategies in the water issue and thus will help the Iraqi government rebuild the country," he said. On January 14, 2019, 

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi thanked France's position to cancel the debts owed by Iraq through the Paris Club and put forward a twinning proposal between the cities of Paris and Baghdad.

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I wonder if any of these "water projects" will be used to generate electricity, which IMO is a prime necessity for Iraq to move forward with investors, especially considering Iran can cut off their electrical supply at a whim whether the bill has been paid in dollars, dinars, or riyals. Why isn't Iraq installing solar plants all over the country? I would guess this could happen fairly fast and sunshine is in ample, never ending supply in the ME. If I were an investor looking to build plants requiring electricity, I would look to push for or invest in solar plants myself first to guarantee Iran didn't pull my investment plug and then watch it go down the drain. 

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5 minutes ago, Carrello said:

I wonder if any of these "water projects" will be used to generate electricity, which IMO is a prime necessity for Iraq to move forward with investors, especially considering Iran can cut off their electrical supply at a whim whether the bill has been paid in dollars, dinars, or riyals. Why isn't Iraq installing solar plants all over the country? I would guess this could happen fairly fast and sunshine is in ample, never ending supply in the ME. If I were an investor looking to build plants requiring electricity, I would look to push for or invest in solar plants myself first to guarantee Iran didn't pull my investment plug and then watch it go down the drain. 

Unless a sand storm blows in for days on end.  Then it’s a foggy red color with sand getting into unthinkable places....  fun times!

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