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5/8/2015 0:00
Environmental official for {morning}: Near the visit of an international delegation of the southern provinces of
Baghdad - the morning - Jinan al-Asadi
sounded the Ministry of Environment and the alarm of the continuing drought marshes in the southern provinces, saying that dozens of villages endangered if the water crisis continues.
Not surprisingly instructed Environment Minister Qutaiba al-Jubouri put all the possibilities of the ministry Mlakatha to alleviate the suffering of the population of Central marshlands and find ways to address the phenomenon of drought.
Jubouri said in a statement the "morning" received a copy of it: that "the issue of water scarcity in the marshlands was a" major disaster "in those areas and the need to be a real pause and harness The ministry possibilities all with maximum efforts to avoid ecological disaster that threatens the Central marshes.
Minister of Environment and added that the lack of water releases and increase the proportion of salinization led to the deaths of large numbers of fish stocks and the loss of livestock, especially buffaloes, stressing that the suffering faced by the residents of the marshes Athert directly in environmental, health and humanitarian level.
He said that dozens of villages in the marshlands are threatened with extinction as a result of the drought that pays Bassaknyha to flee after the destruction of their livestock and drought water on which they depend for their livelihoods and their catch.
It is said that the Prime Minister D.haidar Abadi had ordered the creation of a crisis cell about dryness Central marshes, headed by the Ministry of Environment of the relevant ministries and members of local governments in the provinces concerned.
promising Iraq dossier national special for the inclusion of the Iraqi marshes within the list of human heritage as it represents the humid areas of great importance in biodiversity and environmental, but the drought may hamper the achievement of this .
For his part, the Department of marshes and wetlands official in the Ministry of Environment Hussein al-Asadi said the "morning": that "dry marshes because of the scarcity of water resources within the last stage of the draft declaration of the marshes in the World Heritage List will cause blocking the project and the possibility of rejection by the competent Committee for lack of the conditions set forth in the World Heritage List.
He said there is a group of international experts and specialists in the environmental issue will arrive during the next two months for the purpose of evaluating the region operations, and that the dry marshes form in which it now will reflect negatively on the environmental situation of the regions of the marshes.
He said al-Asadi: "The ministries of environment and Tourism and Antiquities have made great efforts to declare the marshes within the World Heritage list and cut off has made significant progress, as has been the completion of the first and second phases and reach the third and final phase, warning of dry and turn it into a land barren, and the extinction of the remains of plants and aquatic organisms that represent diverse biologically unique areas Alahuar.uaza Asadi low water levels in the marshes to what passed by the provinces of Basra, Maysan and Dhi Qar chapters drought and successive poor rains with low Tigris river level, especially its branches, which had a previously good quantities to feed the marshes and the failure to provide the marshes allocated water share, which led to turn it into a land Dhalh.oavad that the draft declaration of the marshes in the World Heritage List will contribute to ensuring water share insurance to revive it, in addition to being an important tourist attraction factor being turned into an international protectorate, and therefore, the economic and social levels of the inhabitants of the region (estimated 400 thousand people) It will improve.
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5/8/2015 0:00
Environmental official for {morning}: Near the visit of an international delegation of the southern provinces of
Baghdad - the morning - Jinan al-Asadi
sounded the Ministry of Environment and the alarm of the continuing drought marshes in the southern provinces, saying that dozens of villages endangered if the water crisis continues.
Not surprisingly instructed Environment Minister Qutaiba al-Jubouri put all the possibilities of the ministry Mlakatha to alleviate the suffering of the population of Central marshlands and find ways to address the phenomenon of drought.
Jubouri said in a statement the "morning" received a copy of it: that "the issue of water scarcity in the marshlands was a" major disaster "in those areas and the need to be a real pause and harness The ministry possibilities all with maximum efforts to avoid ecological disaster that threatens the Central marshes.
Minister of Environment and added that the lack of water releases and increase the proportion of salinization led to the deaths of large numbers of fish stocks and the loss of livestock, especially buffaloes, stressing that the suffering faced by the residents of the marshes Athert directly in environmental, health and humanitarian level.
He said that dozens of villages in the marshlands are threatened with extinction as a result of the drought that pays Bassaknyha to flee after the destruction of their livestock and drought water on which they depend for their livelihoods and their catch.
It is said that the Prime Minister D.haidar Abadi had ordered the creation of a crisis cell about dryness Central marshes, headed by the Ministry of Environment of the relevant ministries and members of local governments in the provinces concerned.
promising Iraq dossier national special for the inclusion of the Iraqi marshes within the list of human heritage as it represents the humid areas of great importance in biodiversity and environmental, but the drought may hamper the achievement of this .
For his part, the Department of marshes and wetlands official in the Ministry of Environment Hussein al-Asadi said the "morning": that "dry marshes because of the scarcity of water resources within the last stage of the draft declaration of the marshes in the World Heritage List will cause blocking the project and the possibility of rejection by the competent Committee for lack of the conditions set forth in the World Heritage List.
He said there is a group of international experts and specialists in the environmental issue will arrive during the next two months for the purpose of evaluating the region operations, and that the dry marshes form in which it now will reflect negatively on the environmental situation of the regions of the marshes.
He said al-Asadi: "The ministries of environment and Tourism and Antiquities have made great efforts to declare the marshes within the World Heritage list and cut off has made significant progress, as has been the completion of the first and second phases and reach the third and final phase, warning of dry and turn it into a land barren, and the extinction of the remains of plants and aquatic organisms that represent diverse biologically unique areas Alahuar.uaza Asadi low water levels in the marshes to what passed by the provinces of Basra, Maysan and Dhi Qar chapters drought and successive poor rains with low Tigris river level, especially its branches, which had a previously good quantities to feed the marshes and the failure to provide the marshes allocated water share, which led to turn it into a land Dhalh.oavad that the draft declaration of the marshes in the World Heritage List will contribute to ensuring water share insurance to revive it, in addition to being an important tourist attraction factor being turned into an international protectorate, and therefore, the economic and social levels of the inhabitants of the region (estimated 400 thousand people) It will improve.
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