With UN-Canadian funding, Minister of Water Resources announces launching a project to support southern Iraq

INA-  Baghdad

Minister of Water Resources Aoun Diab announced on Sunday the launch of the Human Resilience and Biodiversity Project for the Mesopotamian Marshes, funded and supported by the United Nations Development Programme and the Canadian Embassy.
 
In a speech during the press conference for the launch of the project, and attended by the reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA), Diab said: "The project of human resilience and biodiversity of the Mesopotamian marshes, funded by the Canadian embassy and in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme, is the beginning of supporting and developing the regions of southern Iraq, especially the Chabayish area, which entered among the wetlands and registered globally."
 
He added that "the support will be from the United Nations Development Programme in cooperation with the Canadian government, with a grant of 3 million and 700 thousand US dollars, to support the project for a period of three years."
 
"The aim of the project is to take measures related to the lives of people and communities in the area, develop fish and find some ways to control overfishing and primitive methods that must be reduced," he said.
 
"In addition to the support from the United Nations Development Programme and the Canadian government to support Iraq's position to obtain a fair share of water from neighboring countries to sustain the marshes and revive them continuously," he said, pointing out that "the marshes have been subjected to fluctuating situations that need to be stable to be sustainable."