Basra Marsh Revitalization Center announces a new plan to confront the drought

 Basra-INA

 
The Center for the Revitalization of Marshes and Wetlands in Basra province announced on Thursday, the initiation of a plan to confront drought and restore the marshes, indicating that the plan included 5 important measures.
 
The director of the center, Jamil Sultan Badr, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that the center has prepared a plan to revive the the marshes and treat drought, as it focuses on purifying and improving water not in general, but in some places in the marshes of the province, noting that the plan was initiated.
 
Badr added, Our plan includes a large purification of the marshes' water, maintenance of the regulators, and the installation of floating pumps on the public estuary to withdraw salt water in Shafi, noting that at the same time, we cut off the salty water that reaches Shafi to improve the water.
 
He stressed, the center will continue this plan to include larger areas, pointing out that the aim is to revive the reality of the marshes in the province and to treat the widespread drought there.
 
In a related issue, water and agriculture specialists warned during a conference held on June 13, in Maysan province, of the danger of increased migration of farmers from the countryside to the city as a result of water scarcity in the villages of the province.