The findings of the participatory report on marsh reality are released by the Planning Ministry

INA-  Baghdad


 
The Ministry of Planning announced today, Tuesday, the results of the first participatory report on the reality of the marshes in Iraq in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program, indicating that the report recommended adopting policies to change the reality of life in the marshes.
 
The ministry's spokesman, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The first participatory report on the reality of the marshes in Iraq, which was organized in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), shed light extensively on the reality and nature of the marshes in the country by referring to the percentages of areas submerged in water and the extent to which the marshlands are affected by the decline in sand quantities in them."
 
He added that "the report also identified a clear gap in the number of residents in the marshes compared to other areas, in addition to the decline in economic and professional activities that the residents of the marshes used to practice in light of the abundance of water," noting that "these changes affected the developmental aspect from the economic and environmental aspects in the marshes, as they represent an important environmental equation within Iraq."
 
He added that "the report clearly called for the need to follow long-term policies to change the reality of life in the marshes by increasing the rates of their submergence with water," stressing "the need to give more importance to the reality of the marshes' tourism, especially after they became one of the sites included on the World Heritage List."