Water Resources reveals a plan to cope with declining water levels

Baghdad - INA

The Ministry of Water Resources revealed, today, Thursday, its plan to confront low water levels and water scarcity.
The ministry's spokesman, Ali Radi, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The ministry has prepared a plan to confront the challenges that climate change may impose from low water levels in the coming years, as well as the maintenance of the storage facility and the irrigation system in general," indicating that "its plan includes Expansion by establishing dams. "
He explained that "a higher ministerial committee consisting of a number of experts, general directors and a group of formations held a meeting to study the possibility of constructing a dam on the Tigris River north of the Mosul Dam, specifically in the area close to the Turkish-Syrian border." Designing dams, with a view to submitting their offers in this regard. "