MOWR: 85% of water to reach the local areas

Ministry of Water Resources announced within its work in the crisis cell completed 85% of its plan for the purification, maintenance of rivers, streams and dams to deliver water to the provinces of the country. The Director-General of the General Authority for the operation of irrigation and drainage projects in the Ministry of Water Resources Engineer Ali Radi Thamir said in statement to Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Tuesday: That more than 850 mechanisms worked in most of the country to lift thousands of cubic meters of cane plants, shamplan, Nile flower and waste In addition to the nearly two million cubic meters of mud deposits that broke the bottlenecks in the watercourses and achieved a water depth and flow in accordance with the technical conditions, that ensure the water supply to the central and southern provinces. Stressing the delivery of water planned for the province of Basra to Qal'at Saleh area of running 75 cubic meters per second from Tigris River. Translated by: Emad Atta