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Basra's rivers contaminated with remnants of the Iranian reactor
12.10.2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Baghdad / Ines Tariq - long at a time when foreign companies moving towards Basra, as the industrial area and future trade because of its wells and huge oil reserves as well as the ports represent lung Iraq toward the outside world , remains of the people of the city miserable not predict any development of an economic future, and the faces of the misery of water pollution and scarcity. in a brief visit to the city see the rivers of the publican and Khora and mountainous had been filled with waste, and became the color dark, as that suggests that you are walking near a stream of water, sanitation, Is this the Basra, sung by poets, near the waters of poems woven yarn?. specialists have warned of the danger of contamination of water Basra, as the great carrier of the disease, although the use of water and the type of risk of suicide. Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture, Faisal Rashid said in a statement to (long) "that the waters of Basra suffer pollution as a result of waste thrown from the neighboring countries will not disappear from discarded contaminated water and now the Iraqi government is trying to find a way and a solution to this problem which, if continued, the Shatt al-Arab would not be good. deadline for irrigating agricultural land animals will feed on it. " citizens and emphasizes that the causes of pollution of rivers Basra back to the large number of waste dumped in the conjugations of these rivers and the lack of follow-up to prevent this excess. Saad Al-Alwan, an employee says that the citizens began to leave the visual attention its own environment, because the authorities were not interested in his city clean for years, including the rivers. "We have not seen the force of law to punish the abusers and the cleanliness of the city, especially laboratories and hospitals that are thrown Bmkhalafadtha in the waters of rivers, leading to contamination and the absence of the aesthetic element in it." He called on the competent authorities to pay attention to the risks of pollution on the citizens of the city to impose financial penalties and legal right, because what would have spent the local government to those affected by the pollution does not match the effort or the material value of what Stbzlh today in the fight out of pollution. "As confirmed Rep. Nora Salem of the Economic Commission for (range) "that the pollution affects the river Shatt al-Arab and the disruption of the water from reaching the territory of Iraq will lead to substantial economic loss because of the death of agriculture and animal deaths and the migration of people and resort to the cities." For its part, said Director of Environment Basra charity Abboud Yassin "that collapsed Basra Sub-exposed to environmental pollution require the development of solutions needed by the federal government and local, "she said in a press statement that the river was transformed from being a source of aesthetic of the city to dump garbage and are a danger to public health and the environment, indicating that the processor is to cut Altsariv health and waste them and address them in a scientific manner." As noted Ibrahim Youssef that there is another reason for the pollution of the environment in Basra, the remnants of the Iranian nuclear reactor, "There is no secret that the nuclear reactor is very close to the limits of the province of Basra, and that the reactor uses water to cool, and the question is where to go this water used in the reactor?, and the answer does not need to think long, it's definitely going to Iraq through the rivers entering the sub-Basrah, and this new threat to the environment preservation did not notice him one. " Yousef added, "will show negative results due to enter the water used in nuclear reactor within a few years, and will begin aquatic biota and then agricultural land and access to the citizens of the province, Can we stop the flow of water reactor to Iraq?. And called Joseph both the local in Basra and the Federal to address the Iranian side to convert sewage water into its territory without affecting the waters of Iraq and said, "can be resolved with the Iranian side through the use of formal diplomatic ways to rid Basra of any future risks related to environmental pollution and public health for the people of Basra."
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