New Iraqi-Syrian agreement on water

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17-07-2021, 10:56

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Baghdad-INA

The Minister of Water Resources, Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, signed a joint report with his Syrian counterpart, Tammam Raad, on Saturday to organize the water file between the two countries.

A statement by the ministry of Water Resources, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that a joint report was signed between the Iraqi and Syrian ministers of water resources and the report included an agreement to exchange data related to the water releases to Tigris and Euphrates rivers periodically and in the emergency situations.

The statement added that the agreement also included activating the work of technical committees and unifying the stances regarding the quantities of water received (at the Turkish-Syrian border), noting that the two sides agreed to activate joint cooperation, exchange experiences, intensify the holding of technical and administrative meetings between the two sides, share the damage resulting from the decline in water imports and the impact of climate change.