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In Iraq .. differences between the southern cities on water quotas
Sunday 11-10-2015
Twilight News / escalated disputes exchanged between the cities of southern Iraq and accusations due to water scarcity in recent times, which led to the drying up vast tracts of agricultural land and villages and rural areas, and a large migration to ranchers and farmers from their villages, following a drop in the Euphrates River water level significantly, amid calls continuing to increase Iraq's share of water from neighboring countries.
The governor of Muthanna Faleh Abdul Hassan sugar today in a press statement that "humanitarian catastrophe exposed areas of the south as a result of the scarcity of drinking water," blaming "the local administration for the provinces of Najaf and Diwaniya, the responsibility of the water crisis, as a result of lack of commitment to water quotas for them, and the presence of the excesses of the river." .
He continued, "we appealed to the Iraqi parliament and the Ministry of Water Resources to increase the share of water, and see the reality experienced by the region's water crisis."
For his part, the political analyst Kadhim al-Zubaidi that "the water crisis has serious repercussions on the Iraqi reality is rising, especially in the cities of the south. We note the mutual accusations between local administrations began to take character in public as a result of the excesses of the river, what portends struggle water during future periods, if continued low river water levels and the government's inability to deal with the crisis. "
Zubaidi says, citing a new Arab newspaper in London, the water crisis will not be reflected on the south of Iraq, but also include all of Iraq's provinces in the north, west and center, in the shadow out half of the country for control of the state, and the occurrence of a number of dams, however, armed groups, and to reduce Turkish side of Iraq's share of water in the Tigris and the Euphrates. "
For his part, Baqir al-Waeli said that "water scarcity resulted in the spread of desertification which has become covers nearly 50 per cent of agricultural land with an area across the country about 123 million acres, exploits of which only 52 million acres of which 14 million acres of land irrigated water and 38 million acres in irrigated dependent on rainfall, with water available for irrigation is not enough more than 17 million acres have been only in the case of the use of methods of "spray and drip" of modern irrigation. "
He Waeli "water scarcity resulted in the drying up of more than 20 villages in the cities of the south, and the deaths of very large numbers of fish, and rising pollution in the waters of rivers and streams ratio due to low natural Mnasebha, dry many lakes and water bodies in the cities of the south."
It attributes Waeli not to set up a huge dams in southern Iraq, such as those in the north, west and center of the country to store water, and flying across the Tigris and Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, to the nature of the sedimentary of the cities of the south, which can not tolerate the establishment of huge dams on them, as well as the scarcity of the Tigris and Euphrates water. He said that the dispute between the southern provinces resulting from the exploitation of the river's water across tables and small businesses on the side unfairly.
Experts estimate the loss of Iraq because of the water crisis by about $ 15 billion a year, where she was the country's rice produce approximately 110 thousand tons per year, equivalent to 15 per cent of the total crop.
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Sunday 11-10-2015
Twilight News / escalated disputes exchanged between the cities of southern Iraq and accusations due to water scarcity in recent times, which led to the drying up vast tracts of agricultural land and villages and rural areas, and a large migration to ranchers and farmers from their villages, following a drop in the Euphrates River water level significantly, amid calls continuing to increase Iraq's share of water from neighboring countries.
The governor of Muthanna Faleh Abdul Hassan sugar today in a press statement that "humanitarian catastrophe exposed areas of the south as a result of the scarcity of drinking water," blaming "the local administration for the provinces of Najaf and Diwaniya, the responsibility of the water crisis, as a result of lack of commitment to water quotas for them, and the presence of the excesses of the river." .
He continued, "we appealed to the Iraqi parliament and the Ministry of Water Resources to increase the share of water, and see the reality experienced by the region's water crisis."
For his part, the political analyst Kadhim al-Zubaidi that "the water crisis has serious repercussions on the Iraqi reality is rising, especially in the cities of the south. We note the mutual accusations between local administrations began to take character in public as a result of the excesses of the river, what portends struggle water during future periods, if continued low river water levels and the government's inability to deal with the crisis. "
Zubaidi says, citing a new Arab newspaper in London, the water crisis will not be reflected on the south of Iraq, but also include all of Iraq's provinces in the north, west and center, in the shadow out half of the country for control of the state, and the occurrence of a number of dams, however, armed groups, and to reduce Turkish side of Iraq's share of water in the Tigris and the Euphrates. "
For his part, Baqir al-Waeli said that "water scarcity resulted in the spread of desertification which has become covers nearly 50 per cent of agricultural land with an area across the country about 123 million acres, exploits of which only 52 million acres of which 14 million acres of land irrigated water and 38 million acres in irrigated dependent on rainfall, with water available for irrigation is not enough more than 17 million acres have been only in the case of the use of methods of "spray and drip" of modern irrigation. "
He Waeli "water scarcity resulted in the drying up of more than 20 villages in the cities of the south, and the deaths of very large numbers of fish, and rising pollution in the waters of rivers and streams ratio due to low natural Mnasebha, dry many lakes and water bodies in the cities of the south."
It attributes Waeli not to set up a huge dams in southern Iraq, such as those in the north, west and center of the country to store water, and flying across the Tigris and Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, to the nature of the sedimentary of the cities of the south, which can not tolerate the establishment of huge dams on them, as well as the scarcity of the Tigris and Euphrates water. He said that the dispute between the southern provinces resulting from the exploitation of the river's water across tables and small businesses on the side unfairly.
Experts estimate the loss of Iraq because of the water crisis by about $ 15 billion a year, where she was the country's rice produce approximately 110 thousand tons per year, equivalent to 15 per cent of the total crop.
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