Water Resources develop a plan to invest the water releases coming from Turkey

Baghdad-INA 
The Ministry of Water Resources identified today, Sunday, the importance of the Helsinki Agreement for Iraq, while noting the start of Turkish releases and a slight increase in water quantities.
 
 
"Iraq is the first country in the Middle East to join the Helsinki Water Agreement and 49 globally," said ministry spokesman Khaled Shimal, in a statement to Al-Iraqiya News, followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), noting that "there is international interaction with Iraq regarding the water crisis."
He added, "The importance of this agreement for Iraq centers on its openness to all experiences concerned with this aspect, especially transboundary waters, in addition to supporting the member states of the agreement to make internal reforms, as well as international support in water safety, advancing internal development programs, and achieving a kind of self-development in Iraq institutions in the field of how to deal with the file of shared water with other countries," noting that "these agreements will increase Iraq's international balance and the possibility of cooperation with it."
Regarding the Turkish releases, Shimal affirmed that "the Turkish releases have started and there is a slight increase in the quantities of water, which takes time to arrive," explaining that "the water will be suitable for this month."
Shimal pointed out, "developing a plan to store the largest amount of these water and working to raise the levels of the Tigris River in a logical and reasonable manner," noting that "this water will be preserved."