Iraq | Water Sector

[sheytanElKebir]

Iraq is to build six new irrigation dams at a cost of $56.4m.

The country's minister for Water resources, Muhannad al-Saadi, told Al Shorfa that each of the dams will cost around 11bn Iraqi Dinars, or $9.4m.

"The new dams are located in Kirkuk, Anbar, Diyala, Wasit and Maysan, which will feature two dams," he said.

"Ministry engineers and private companies that specialise in building dams are currently supervising the work."

The minister said that the aim of the project would be to "benefit from storing rain and flood water, regulate ideal water distribution according to each province's needs for agriculture and human consumption, develop animal wealth and tourist investment, improve the environment and feed groundwater levels".

[AssyrianBeauty]

Originally Posted by SumerianKing

Actually I think It will happen, it would of happened by now if they have had the resources to make the money from to manage their country, atm they are surviving of money from the central government. Anyway offtopic, but it is the right moral thing to give what they people want done you think?

That was all of Assyria, you know that right

[SumerianKing]

Originally Posted by AssyrianBeauty

That was all of Assyria, you know that right

I read a lot on near eastern/mesopotamian history and for you to say that makes no sense at all! if what you say is true, then you should have parts of egypt and the whole middle east. because at one point during the assyrian empire the whole ME was theres. you wont find a greek complaining about now having all there land. capital of assyrian empire used to be nenivah, and as far as we are conserned thats not part of KRG. and the kurds, arabs, and assyrians of iraq are all very closeley related anyway, we mixed for thousands of years, it upsets me of the divisions we have. we are all iraqi at the end of the day. but obviously many kurds will dissagree lool.

[AssyrianBeauty]

Originally Posted by SumerianKing

I read a lot on near eastern/mesopotamian history and for you to say that makes no sense at all! if what you say is true, then you should have parts of egypt and the whole middle east. because at one point during the assyrian empire the whole ME was theres. you wont find a greek complaining about now having all there land. capital of assyrian empire used to be nenivah, and as far as we are conserned thats not part of KRG. and the kurds, arabs, and assyrians of iraq are all very closeley related anyway, we mixed for thousands of years, it upsets me of the divisions we have. we are all iraqi at the end of the day. but obviously many kurds will dissagree lool.

You're not getting the point to what I was saying, and why would the Greeks complain? They have all their country that is not occupied by the Turks or anybody else, like northern Iraq as Assyrian. Not the whole middle east like Egypt or anything like that... There are many places in northern Iraq where Assyrians was the majority, it is not anymore because there is a reason for what had happened long ago. For example, places like Duhok which the kurds change the name from original name Nuhadra. There were also many villages that were majority of Assyrians, all taken by the Kurds. I know that most Kurds wont agree but I have to say half of the Kurdish population is Assyrian or at least Assyrian mix because they Kurdified them, same as they Kurdified the Yezidis, which some dont claimed to be Kurds.

There is a book out there that did mentioned the Kurds and how Assyrians were living from late and mid 1800s that was recorded by missionaries. Nothing but barbarics from Zagros mountain in Iran that taken over or from somewhere in Turkey. ugh

[SumerianKing]

Originally Posted by AssyrianBeauty

You're not getting the point to what I was saying, and why would the Greeks complain? They have all their country that is not occupied by the Turks or anybody else, like northern Iraq as Assyrian. Not the whole middle east like Egypt or anything like that... There are many places in northern Iraq where Assyrians was the majority, it is not anymore because there is a reason for what had happened long ago. For example, places like Duhok which the kurds change the name from original name Nuhadra. There were also many villages that were majority of Assyrians, all taken by the Kurds. I know that most Kurds wont agree but I have to say half of the Kurdish population is Assyrian or at least Assyrian mix because they Kurdified them, same as they Kurdified the Yezidis, which some dont claimed to be Kurds.

There is a book out there that did mentioned the Kurds and how Assyrians were living from late and mid 1800s that was recorded by missionaries. Nothing but barbarics from Zagros mountain in Iran that taken over or from somewhere in Turkey. ugh

hmm yeh, iv read on the assyrian genocide. and i agree that there are assyrian majority areas.anyway, the situation is real difficuilt to explain. kurds are more of a nation of people, there are of 40 plus million of them, i do believe that many of them are the original inhabitants of the zagros mountains. but also words such as kurds, assyrians, arabs have no real meaning to me in iraq. because we are all closeley related. just because some is called a kurd today, doesnt mean his ancesters where gutians or hurrians from zagros/anatolia, just because someone is called assyrian today, doesnt mean his ancestral link have anything to do with the first assyrians in nenivah (remember it was an empire, they brang people from all of the ME to increase their power force). and the same concept goes with iraqi arabs.

also your argument about kurdification is nothin new, how about islamification of the christian population of iraq when islam entered, many assyrians/babylonians/and many mesopotamians converted and hence arabisation occured also. and the people who.never converted are the remaining christians, jews, mandeans etc of iraq, who resisted islamification and arabization, and hence they dont consider themselves arabs. just like how aramaic was the main language of iraq before islam. anyway this is a long off topic subject. to conclude, i personaly wish for iraq to come under one unified state with love x.

[AssyrianBeauty]

Originally Posted by SumerianKing

hmm yeh, iv read on the assyrian genocide. and i agree that there are assyrian majority areas.anyway, the situation is real difficuilt to explain. kurds are more of a nation of people, there are of 40 plus million of them, i do believe that many of them are the original inhabitants of the zagros mountains. but also words such as kurds, assyrians, arabs have no real meaning to me in iraq. because we are all closeley related. just because some is called a kurd today, doesnt mean his ancesters where gutians or hurrians from zagros/anatolia, just because someone is called assyrian today, doesnt mean his ancestral link have anything to do with the first assyrians in nenivah (remember it was an empire, they brang people from all of the ME to increase their power force). and the same concept goes with iraqi arabs.

also your argument about kurdification is nothin new, how about islamification of the christian population of iraq when islam entered, many assyrians/babylonians/and many mesopotamians converted and hence arabisation occured also. and the people who.never converted are the remaining christians, jews, mandeans etc of iraq, who resisted islamification and arabization, and hence they dont consider themselves arabs. just like how aramaic was the main language of iraq before islam. anyway this is a long off topic subject. to conclude, i personaly wish for iraq to come under one unified state with love x.

Yeah that is true about what you said about everyone did converted to Islam and start calling themselves Arabs and they all used to speak Aramaic. Although, Assyrian Aramaic have some Akkadian words and influences.. Many Assyrian would like a autonomy like the Kurds, just to perserved the culture, language, protections and so on. It is different when you have Kurdish politician that is nothing but drama queen that want to leave off of Iraq.

I hope Assyrians will have their own Assyrian administration/autonomous. If nothing going in action, Assyrian will be almost gone in Iraq which been happening for years because they seemed lost their rights and living under threats, as they may continue to migrate to Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Europe, Australia, US, Canada... over time they will become arabnized, kurdified, and westernize as first and second generation because none no longer live the homeland. Sadly, I'm a first generation and I dont speak nor know too much Assyrian and hardly ever speak it at all. It is a sad situation.

[SumerianKing]

Originally Posted by AssyrianBeauty

Yeah that is true about what you said about everyone did converted to Islam and start calling themselves Arabs and they all used to speak Aramaic. Although, Assyrian Aramaic have some Akkadian words and influences.. Many Assyrian would like a autonomy like the Kurds, just to perserved the culture, language, protections and so on. It is different when you have Kurdish politician that is nothing but drama queen that want to leave off of Iraq.

I hope Assyrians will have their own Assyrian administration/autonomous. If nothing going in action, Assyrian will be almost gone in Iraq which been happening for years because they seemed lost their rights and living under threats, as they may continue to migrate to Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, Europe, Australia, US, Canada... over time they will become arabnized, kurdified, and westernize as first and second generation because none no longer live the homeland. Sadly, I'm a first generation and I dont speak nor know too much Assyrian and hardly ever speak it at all. It is a sad situation.

I dont agree with autonomy, but I agree 100% with preservation of the people. Recently Baghdad government is undergoing full reconstruction of 5 churches in Baghdad
Your right about the language. Iraqi Arabic is linguistically called Mesopotamian arabic, because it has many loan words from Aramaic and Akkadian, as before arabic, Aramaic was spoken. I hope all groups In Iraq will be protected and preserved. And water is a beautiful thing (staying on topic lool)

[Ali - Iraq]

Saad: Committee to be formed to investigate stoppage of water desalination station in Faw
aghdad (IraqiNews.com) -MP, Suzan al-Saad, stated that a committee, comprising some MPs of Basra province, will be formed to investigate the stoppage of the water desalination station in Faw district of Basra province after inaugurating it by the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, before four hours only.

In a press statement received by IraqiNews.com on Thursday, she said “The station, which was in cost 13 Million USD and was performed in 2010, has stopped working after inauguration it in four hours only and did not work till this time without revealing the reasons.”

“The station was performed by one of the local companies is considered as the second station for water desalination in Iraq,” she added, noting that “The first station was inaugurated few days ago in Sihan district of Abu al-Khasib area 20 KM south of Basra.”

“The committee will start its performance to reveal the reasons behind the suspicious stoppage of the station because it is impossible to stop after four hours only after operating it,” she concluded.
http://www.iraqinews.com/baghdad-pol...tation-in-faw/

[Euphrates]

Why doesn't Iraq use this technique to solve drought...it is commonly used by China and other countries.

[BigDreamer]

cloud seeding has generally failed ..

I read alot about this technology few years ago.. china uses it .. but if you do a cost-benefit analysis.. it turns out that it certainly isn't appealing

please note that could seeding doesnt work in every climate.. and the results are highly variable

dont be fooled that you can turn a desert into a rainforest using this technology..

[Euphrates]

oh I see, thanks.

[Ali - Iraq]

MoWR digs 130 water wells across Iraq
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) -The technical and engineering staff within the Ministry of Water Resources confirmed digging 130 water wells during last June in addition to rehabilitating some other wells.

A statement by the Ministry cited “The digging works of water wells covered 12 provinces across Iraq during last June where 130 other wells have been drilled in addition to rehabilitating and maintaining a number of other water wells.”
http://www.iraqinews.com/features/mo...s-across-iraq/

[sheytanElKebir]

a new water treatment project in samawa is now under construction, taking raw water from shatt al rumaitha and processing 10,000 cubic meters of water an hour. its being completed by a german company and will take two and a half years to complete.

[Ali - Iraq]

WR Ministry starts 2nd stage of performing Ali al-Gharbi Dam in Maysan
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) -The Ministry of Water Resources announced the start of the second stage of constructing Ali al-Gharbi Dam in Maysan province.

A statement by the Ministry received by IraqiNews.com on Monday cited “The technical and engineering staff of the General Rafidain Company for constructing dams within the WR Ministry started the second stage of Ali- al-Gharbi Dam in Maysan province which is included with the projects of the Regions Development.”

“The performance includes installing Sheet Piles in the right side of Tigress River in length of 660 Ms and linking those piles to concrete barriers by Steel Rod,” the statement concluded.

[Ali - Iraq]

Iraq Selects Passavant-Roediger for Wastewater Plant in Kerbala
Iraq selected Passavant-Roediger GmbH, a subsidiary of Dubai-based Drake & Scull International (DSI) PJSC, to design and build a sludge treatment system for a wastewater plant in Kerbala.
The value of the contract using sludge digestion technology including energy recovery from the organic matter it treats and biogas generation is 86 million dirham ($23.4 million), the company said in a statement.
Twelve sludge digesters will be installed as part of the contract for a project the company expects to be ready next year

[Ali - Iraq]

Baghdad Mayoralty forms Operations Cell to follow up water filtering plans


aghdad (IraqiNews.com) -Baghdad Acting Mayor, Abdul Hussein al-Murshidi, instructed to form an operations cell to follow up the procedures of operating the water filtering plans as preventive measures to prevent the spread of cholera epidemic in Baghdad.

A statement by Baghdad Mayoralty mentioned that “Forming the operations cell comes to supervise the water projects and water compounds to make sure of their validity to the human consumption especially after registering some illnesses of cholera in some Iraqi provinces.”

[Ali - Iraq]

New water compounds to be built in Babel
Babylon (IraqiNews.com) -The Sadda Municipal Council within Babel government announced the construction of two compounds for water in the area of Al-Mihenawih within the budget for the development of the regions.

The President of the Council Engineer, Haidar Muhsin, told Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) that “The first compound has the capacity of [250] cubic meters per hour and the other one has a capacity of [200] cubic meters per hour,” noting that “The two compounds are out of six projects have been forwarded to the implementation recently in the area of Al-Mihenawih and its villages. “

“The projects will be implemented in accordance with the approved standard specifications for water compounds,” Mohsin added.

[Chounz]

What happened to that massive water project in Baghdad that was under construction... was meant to provide clean water for all of Baghdad up until 2020. I just remembered it. We haven't had updates in ages!!!

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