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Services restored in the liberated cities of Iraq
Saturday, 13 December, 2014
Work is under way at the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works to implement an emergency plan to rehabilitate the municipal services and infrastructure in regions and cities retaken from the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL).
The plan aims to “create suitable service conditions in the areas freed from ISIL, meet the needs of citizens in several municipalities and urban sectors, and ensure the return of normal life to those areas”, ministry media advisor Jassem Mohammed Salem told.
The plan includes accounting for and assessing damages to facilities and infrastructure projects in the water, sanitation and municipal services sectors, he said, as well as their immediate repair per the ministry’s available financial resources and capabilities.
He stated, “There are rehabilitation works we began implementing in some districts and counties, and others we already finished as is the case in Samarra, where our technical and engineering staff managed to repair and operate drinking water projects and lines and to reconstruct the city’s municipal building, as well as complete a variety of municipal works.”
ISIL halted large-scale, strategic projects such as the Abu Ghraib water project, which had a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters per hour and served more than half a million people, he said. Efforts are under way to address the problems and damage to this project and others in Salaheddine, Diyala and Anbar provinces, Salem said.
This year’s delay in adopting a state budget law is one of the ministry’s chief challenges to completing its investment projects, and to rebuilding and operating the affected projects, some of which need huge imported parts and more funding, he said.
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Saturday, 13 December, 2014
Work is under way at the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works to implement an emergency plan to rehabilitate the municipal services and infrastructure in regions and cities retaken from the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL).
The plan aims to “create suitable service conditions in the areas freed from ISIL, meet the needs of citizens in several municipalities and urban sectors, and ensure the return of normal life to those areas”, ministry media advisor Jassem Mohammed Salem told.
The plan includes accounting for and assessing damages to facilities and infrastructure projects in the water, sanitation and municipal services sectors, he said, as well as their immediate repair per the ministry’s available financial resources and capabilities.
He stated, “There are rehabilitation works we began implementing in some districts and counties, and others we already finished as is the case in Samarra, where our technical and engineering staff managed to repair and operate drinking water projects and lines and to reconstruct the city’s municipal building, as well as complete a variety of municipal works.”
ISIL halted large-scale, strategic projects such as the Abu Ghraib water project, which had a capacity of 10,000 cubic meters per hour and served more than half a million people, he said. Efforts are under way to address the problems and damage to this project and others in Salaheddine, Diyala and Anbar provinces, Salem said.
This year’s delay in adopting a state budget law is one of the ministry’s chief challenges to completing its investment projects, and to rebuilding and operating the affected projects, some of which need huge imported parts and more funding, he said.
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