Water resources: new strategy to revive the marshes

Dhi Qar -INA
 
Ministry of Water Resources announced on Sunday adopting new strategic plan for the development of the marshlands for a period of 25 years, and while it revealed that the current inundation rates of the marshes had reached 73 percent, it confirmed that its water quotas had been fully secured for the current year.
The director of The Marshlands and Wetlands Recovery Center, Samira Abdul Rouhi Al-Shabib, said in a statement to Al-Sabah newspaper, on Sunday, that the ministry prepared this plan according to a basic design, adding that the water quotas for the marshes are fully secured for the current year, and all the marshes have become separate from each other, namely Al-Hawizeh, Al-Wusta and Al-Hammar after they were one marshland, Thus, supplying the marshes with the water has become limited.