Baghdad – IA
Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Water Resources revealed 3 strategic factors in negotiating with neighboring countries regarding Iraq’s water shares, while specifying a mechanism for investing rainwater to support water storage.
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Ministry of Resources spokesman Khaled Shamal told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “The Ministry is concerned with managing external and internal water revenues, rain, and groundwater and investing them. As for the service departments concerned with managing water and sewage departments, the Ministry has crisis cells that communicate with the departments concerned with the governorates and the secretariat.” Baghdad to provide aid and assistance.
Speaking about the rainwater investment mechanism, he added, “The Ministry is mobilized to invest all rainwater, whether by directing it to artificial or natural storage lakes, pushing it into river columns, or stopping water pumping into irrigation networks and investing this water,” pointing out that “the goal it seeks is The Ministry’s goal is to raise storage and restore low river levels due to the lack of water revenues, in addition to storing the largest amounts of rain and investing the water to achieve the irrigation process.
He continued, “The rain that falls in places far from river columns or storage lakes will contribute to enhancing vegetation cover and rehabilitating and improving the natural landscape of pastoral areas.”
He pointed out that “the Ministry took advantage of the recent rains and passed a controlled flood wave through the Samarra Dam towards the marshes in the southern regions, where the levels of some marsh areas were raised,” indicating that “one of the professional, national and ethical obligations of the Ministry of Finance is to preserve the marshes and restore the environmental and ecological system of the marsh areas.” “.
Regarding Iraq’s water shares with neighboring countries, Shamal stressed that “there are exceptional efforts from the government, represented by Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, by transforming the water file from a technical and diplomatic one for the Ministries of Water Resources and Foreign Affairs to a sovereign file under his supervision, as the file will be present in all issues and common interests with Upstream countries.
He stated that “Iraq is working on three important strategic factors in negotiations with upstream countries. The first lies in exchanging benefits and sharing harm through joint management of the Tigris-Euphrates basins, and the third factor is the exchange of strategic information that avoids emergencies, crises and disasters.”
Shamal pointed out that “repeated visits to Iran, Turkey, and Syria contributed greatly to moving the negotiation file forward, and the Iraqi negotiating team became very strong in obtaining the prescribed water shares, given that the file has become popular and political.”
