Resources: A plan to implement harvesting dams to invest rainwater throughout the map of Iraq

Baghdad – WAA
The Ministry of Water Resources confirmed, today, Sunday, that the campaign to remove violations on rivers provided stable quantities of up to 100 liters of water per second, and while it identified 3 types of violations on the Iraqi water system, it confirmed the existence of a plan to implement harvesting dams to exploit rainwater along the map of Iraq.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Resources, Khaled Shamal, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “Iraq has a storage system represented by the dams on the Tigris and Euphrates, such as the Darbandikhan, Mosul and Haditha Al-Azim dams, as well as natural storage lakes such as Tharthar and Habbaniyah, and the river column, which the ministry worked on this season to raise river levels and maintain them after they were very low,” indicating that “these measures came as a result of the government’s support and the ministry’s efforts.”
He added, “The map of the spread of dams is linked to the northern and western regions, as they have a layer of…
A demographic base that allows for water storage,” that “the ministry plans, with the aim of exploiting rainwater, to implement dozens of water harvesting dams during the next three years along the map of Iraq, while rehabilitating all other dams.”
Regarding the violations of water, Shamal pointed out that, “There are three types of violations of the Iraqi water system. The first is exceeding water quotas and taking water without right. The second is on the forbidden areas of river banks. The third is throwing harmful environmental waste into rivers.”
He explained that “encroachment on water is a clear and deliberate violation of the law, given that water belongs to everyone and encroachment on it is an infringement on the rights of others.”
He pointed out that “the ministry deals with violations in a professional manner and there is great support from the Prime Minister, the security forces and the media to reduce violations,” explaining that “the ministry has provided, through its continuous campaigns to remove violations, the equivalent of 100 cubic litres of water per second.”

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