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Baghdad, Ankara demanded a fair quota of water, according to international laws
Date: Thursday, 08.03.2012 8:57
Baghdad / follow-up range
called for the Minister of Water Resources Muhannad al-Saadi fair share in the distribution of water among the riparian States, asserting that Iraq stresses the importance of activating the work of the joint technical committees to resolve the issue of its share of water from the Tigris and Euphrates. Al-Sa'di said in a speech during the meetings of the Islamic Conference of Ministers responsible for water held in the city of Istanbul, Turkey
"Iraq stresses the importance of exchange of hydrological information with the riparian States with Iraq on the Tigris and Euphrates with the activation of the functional commissions of water shared between these countries." He al-Saadi, "Iraq is seen as the issue of water as a strategic and crucial and requires a fair share in accordance with international conventions and laws . "Assadi was met with a number of heads of delegations of Arab and Islamic participation in the meetings of the Conference, including heads of delegations of Oman, Algeria, Somalia, Qatar, in addition to meeting the Iranian delegation to follow up on what was agreed upon in Tehran during the month of February, on rivers and shared water and the problem of pollution in the Shatt al-Arab.
and met with al-Saadi also the minister of forestry and irrigation Turkish and discussed the prospects of joint cooperation between Iraq and Turkey in the field of water and water resources and to examine the problem of water scarcity and declining revenue water of the Tigris and the Euphrates and the exchange of information and emphasized the importance of technical cooperation and the coordination of joint efforts to regulate the investment of water resources to meet the needs of both countries development. little The city of Istanbul hosts for the duration of 5-6 this month, the meetings of the Islamic Conference of Ministers responsible for water under the slogan (work together for a secure future in the field of water) and participation (57) Arab and Muslim countries. The aim of these meetings, research and discuss the draft document to see cooperation organization Muslim on water, which aims to stimulate water security growing in the Member States through cooperation within the principles of Islam based on the unity and cohesion, capacity building and exchange of information and develop solutions to the problems of water through open channels of dialogue as well as meet the challenges of water scarcity and water-related transboundary and global climate change and production food and social and economic changes at the regional and international levels.
It is noteworthy that successive Iraqi governments since the sixties of the last century, and to now seek to conclude agreements with neighboring countries for the purpose of reaching understandings on the share of the Iraqi water in rivers shared that stem from these countries. The researchers attribute the scarcity of Water in Iraq to the presence of dams and water reservoirs in Turkey, Syria, on the course of the Tigris and Euphrates, which reduces the amount of water entering Iraq through the course of these two, Mesopotamia, Vtdnt water levels in the two rivers, which scions of the two neighboring countries more than 60% over twenty years . On a related matter agreed to the Ministry of Water Resources with the Turkish side on the construction of a dam joint after a comprehensive study and the establishment of plants hydrology to measure Tsariv water in the river between the two countries, while confirming that it had agreed with them also to activate the work of the Technical Committee the Iraqi-Turkish stalled for more than two years .
said Minister of Water Resources Muhannad al-Saadi said in a statement issued by his office on the sidelines of his meeting with the Minister of Environment and Forests Turkish Faisal Air Ihsanoglu in Istanbul reported "Alsumaria News": The both Iraq and Turkey agreed on the construction of a dam joint after a comprehensive study of both sides, noting that the agreement also included the establishment of plants hydrology to measure Tsariv water in rivers shared between the two countries. "said Saadi, said the two sides also agreed to activate the work of the Technical Committee the Iraqi-Turkish stalled for more than two years," explaining that "it was also agreed to set up training courses for the cadres of technical and engineering Iraqi areas water resources in the Higher Institute of Turkish to develop their skills and their abilities in the management of water. "and announced that the Kurdistan Regional Government in (November 12, 2010), the formation of an Iraqi committee Turkish surveys for determining the line of Taluk border and the removal of abuses on both sides of the river Khabur and Hazel that separate the border between the two countries , indicating that the Committee agreed to set up during the meetings of representatives of the two countries in Dohuk to study the border problems.
held by representatives of the governments of Turkey and Iraq and with the participation of representative of the Kurdistan region of a series of meetings during (the month of November 2010) in the province of Dahuk, to study the border problems between the two countries caused by the changing course of rivers Hazel and Khabur in the region of Zakho, 45 km west of Dohuk.
and was scheduled to hold a technical committee which was formed between the two Iraqi and Turkish another meeting in early 2011 as a prelude to sign a draft agreement between the two countries to solve the problem of abuse, but that the meeting was not held. and enters the River Hazel of Turkey into Iraqi territory in the Dasht-TeX, northwest of Zakho, Dohuk province, separated by the river the Iraqi border from Turkey in the north-west of Zakho, then meets the River Khabur inside Iraqi territory, flows into the Tigris. The informed sources that the amount of drainage water from the River Hazel During the last two years recorded between five thousand to fifty thousand liters per second, confirming that more than a dozen villages rely on the River Hazel as well as irrigating thousands of acres of agricultural land. Deputy Prime Minister Rose Shawis said in February last year 2011 in his speech to the Assembly General of the United Nations in New York, that most of the water contained to Iraq, received through the river in common with the riparian States, where 68% of the revenues of the Tigris River basin and 97% of the revenue of the Euphrates come from Turkey, Syria and Iran, noting that Iraq is influenced by actions the countries located upstream as a result of the expansion of water use in these countries, and the absence of agreements that define each country's share of those waters. and Turkey established 14 dams on the Euphrates River and its tributaries within its territory, and eight dams on the Tigris River and its tributaries, as you need to for several years to fill artificial lakes behind this dams, while established Syria's five dams, three of which were built in the mid-sixties.
The drought crisis worsened in all Iraqi provinces during the years 2007 and 2008 and followed because of low rainfall and poor use of irrigation water and low water levels of the Tigris and Euphrates, which are suffering already from low Hssma in Iraq at a rate of two-thirds over the past 25 years.
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