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techniques">IRAQ: Call to adopt modern irrigation techniques</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dams/" rel="tag">Dams</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/irin/" rel="tag">IRIN</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water/" rel="tag">Water</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-crisis/" rel="tag">Water Crisis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-shortage/" rel="tag">water shortage</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Fluctuating water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraq’s primary sources of surface water, will continue to mar agricultural development unless more equitable water access rights are agreed with neighbouring countries and modern irrigation techniques are more widely adopted to reduce wastage, says a government official. <br/>  <br/>“Iraq must take a legal step with the [help of the] UN and international organizations and community to determine its water rights with these countries… We must start using modern irrigation technology as we are still using the old, traditional ways which waste huge amounts of water,” said Abdul-Razzaq Jassim Hassoun, head of the Planning Ministry’s Agricultural Statistics Department. <br/>  <br/>The Ministry of Agriculture was promoting modern irrigation systems, particularly drip and sprinkle irrigation systems. Sprinkler irrigation would need 4-6 years to complete, but could save 3.6 billion cubic metres of water a year, said Deputy Agriculture Minister Riadh Al-Qaisi. <br/>  <br/>Since 2003, Iraq has tried to reach agreement with Turkey, Syria and Iran over water allocations but nothing has been agreed. The three countries argue that their increasing need for water due to drought makes it impossible to reach an agreement, and they urge Iraq to adopt modern irrigation techniques, instead. <br/>  <br/>In December, the Iraqi Cabinet authorized the minister of foreign affairs to lead negotiations with Turkey and Syria on a water-sharing agreement, but so far no meetings have been held, according to Water Resources Ministry spokesman Ali Hashim; he mentioned that on 20 February Iraq signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understating with Iran to activate already existing joint committees on water issues. “We hope this will lead to agreements in the future,” he said. The minister was also planning a visit to Turkey “very soon”.</p> <h3>Dam construction</h3> <p>“What is clear now is that water resources in Iraq mainly from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are continually decreasing due to huge dams being constructed in Turkey and Syria,” said the Planning Ministry’s Hassoun. </p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2012/02/22/iraq-call-to-adopt-modern-irrigation-techniques/#more-14022" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12821"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/22/%d8%b5%d9%86%d8%af%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%af%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%81%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%86%d8%b5%d9%81-%d9%83%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa/#respond" title="Comment on صندوق الامم المتحدة 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height="250" alt="20110322_UNICEF_more_than_six_million_Irakis_have_no_access_to_safe_drinking_water"/></a> <p>كشفت وكالة تابعة للأمم المتحدة في تقرير لها، أن نصف كميات الماء في العراق تضيع هدرا، في حين لا يتمكن ستة ملايين نسمة من الحصول على مياه صالحة للشرب. <br/>وأشار صندوق الأمم المتحدة للطفولة "اليونسيف" بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للمياه إلى احتمال حصول جفاف في نهري دجلة والفرات في حلول عام 2040 نظرا للتغييرات المناخية وانخفاض كميات المياه والاستخدام المكثف لأغراض الصناعة والاستهلاك المنزلي. <br/>وأضاف أن العراق يواجه صعوبات في التوصل إلى تزويد 91 في المائة من المنازل بمياه الشرب بحلول عام 2015، لافتا إلى أن نصف كميات المياه تضيع هدرا بسبب تقادم البنى التحتية والتسريب وسوء التوزيع. <br/>وأوضح التقرير أن واحدا من أصل خمسة عراقيين لا يمكنه الحصول على مياه الشرب وخصوصا في المناطق الريفية، وأن نصف مليون طفل يستخدمون مياه الأنهر أو الجداول، في حين يستخدم حوالى 200 ألف غيرهم آبارا مكشوفة أو صهاريج المياه، ما يؤدي إلى تفشي الأمراض الناجمة عن تلوث المياه. <br/>وأكدت الأمم المتحدة أن ما لا يقل عن 200 ألف طن من مجاري الصرف الصحي تصب يوميا في نهر دجلة ما يهدد مصادر المياه غير المحمية ونظام توزيع المياه بأكمله.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11208"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/30/selected-english-coverage-now-it-begins/#respond" title="Comment on Selected English Coverage: Now It Begins">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 30th, 2010 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/30/selected-english-coverage-now-it-begins/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Selected English Coverage: Now It Begins">Selected English Coverage: Now It Begins</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abdelmalek-sellal/" rel="tag">Abdelmalek Sellal</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arab-league/" rel="tag">Arab League</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bahrain/" rel="tag">Bahrain</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dams/" rel="tag">Dams</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/egypt/" rel="tag">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/israel/" rel="tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/israeli-theft-of-water/" rel="tag">Israeli theft of water</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jordan/" rel="tag">Jordan</a>, <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-rights/" rel="tag">water rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-security/" rel="tag">water security</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>There’s a short article published on KUNA <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098039&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Arab water ministers seek water security strategy</a> announcing the second session of the "Executive Board of the Council of Arab Water Ministers" which was held under the auspices of the Arab league.´</p> <p>Like most reports carried on Arabic government news agencies of official transactions the report is dull and leaden. Which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t carry imteresting information.</p> <p>It came as news to me that Saudi Arabia and Libya collaborate on desalination. </p> <p>The report mentions that the ministers say they want their countries to cooperate more on water matters. And then there’s this:</p> <blockquote><p>The strategy includes a set of recommendations aiming to defend Arab water rights, given that Israel is stealing Arab water from Syria and Lebanon, he said.</p> <p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098039&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">كونا : Arab water ministers seek water security strategy – الكهرباء والماء – 30/06/2010</a></p> </blockquote> <p>There’s nothing new in Arabs pointing out that Israel is stealing water hand over fist. That the Israelis are stealing water is well known. Moreover the Arab league is not exactly known for being the world’s most impressive organisation. But the water crisis in the Middle East and North Africa is now so severe that it is rapidly becoming a survival issue first for the governments but shortly thereafter for the peoples of the region.</p> <blockquote><p>The strategy includes a set of recommendations aiming to defend Arab water rights, given that Israel is stealing Arab water from Syria and Lebanon, he said.</p> </blockquote> <p>In a region that is moving slowly but inexorably towards water wars, that’s called "setting a precedent" — life for the separatist government in the three Kurdish provinces who are busy constructing dams with enthusiasm has just become a lot more dangerous.</p> <p>markfromireland</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10892"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/04/baghdad-urged-to-tackle-water-crisis/#respond" title="Comment on Baghdad Urged to Tackle Water Crisis">No 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resources</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-rights/" rel="tag">water rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-scarcity/" rel="tag">water scarcity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-shortage/" rel="tag">water shortage</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-shortages/" rel="tag">Water Shortages</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat/" rel="tag">wheat</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><em>UN report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since 2005 due to water shortages.</em> </p> <p>Iraqis are calling on their incoming government to devote more energy to resolving the country’s chronic water problems, with some experts stating that water will be more important than oil in the long-term development of the county. </p> <p>Even as recent rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken Iraq, the historic problem of water scarcity has forced tens of thousands of rural Iraqis from their homes. The government estimates that nearly two million people face severe drinking water shortages and extremely limited electricity due to hydropower shortage. </p> <p>Meanwhile, diplomatic tensions are running high as promises from upriver counties such as Turkey, Syria and Iran to allow more water into Iraq appear not to have been met. This week, Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zebari denounced a plan by Syria to divert water from the Tigris river to irrigate some 200,000 acres of land as detrimental to Iraq’s future water supply. </p> <p>Iraq’s minister of electricity Kareem Waheed called Syria’s move a “shock” that would “embarrass” his ministry and undermine its commitments to hydropower. Both ministers decried Syria’s plan as a breach of international conventions on down-river water rights. </p> <p>“The next government will be challenged on the water issue and there is no option but to deal with it. I understand that Iraq faces more than one problem, but this one can’t be ignored. No matter what the government is focusing on, this problem will impose itself,” said Dr Awn Thiab al-Ajeli, the head of Iraq’s National Centre for Water Resource Management within the ministry of water resources. </p> <p>"The first step that should be made is to reach a deal with Turkey as well as Iran and Syria in order to have good, stable amounts of water enter to Iraq each day. The current situation is that the amount is good one day, and bad the next. To make this step, a deal must be made between governments, not just between two water ministries. It depends on the diplomatic relations between the two states," Ajeli said. </p> <p>Officials have said in the past security concerns have overshadowed the development of a forward-thinking water policy. With Iraq’s recent and relative stability, experts are now calling for a plan to tackle the water problems that have afflicted the country – from rising salinity in the southern marshland to the imminent demise of traditional irrigation systems, known as karez, in the north. </p> <p>A UNESCO report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their native communities since 2005 due to water shortages. </p> <p>Another United Nations report claims the water levels in the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, Iraq’s primary sources of water, have fallen by more than two-thirds. The report cautioned that the vital lifelines could completely dry up by 2040. </p> <p>“At the current rates, Iraq’s water supply will fall an estimated 43 billion cubic metres by 2015, far short of the 77 cubic metres that the country will need to avert a widespread humanitarian disaster,” the UN report read. </p> <p>According to UN research, “Inefficient irrigation, lack of government coordination and weak capacity to manage the resource has compounded the current shortage of water… After years of neglect during the previous regime, Iraq’s water managers still lack sufficient technical capability and knowledge to address its growing water crisis. Budget constraints have handicapped the government’s ability to implement a long-term water management plan.” </p> <p>Social problems connected with water scarcity are common in Iraq: fishermen in the southern complain of a declining catches; in agricultural areas, water shortages have caused wheat production to fall by half. According to the UN, Iraq now imports 80 per cent of its food and 90 per cent of Iraq’s land is either desert or “suffering from severe desertification”. </p> <p>“Water is more important than oil for Iraq because we have agricultural lands which, without water, are useless. Agriculture is the future and the new government need to see that,” Ajeji said. </p> <p>The political impact of water relations with upriver countries is not lost on the UN. “We believe that the problem has political dimensions between Iraq and [its neighbours], which are trying to put pressure on the Iraqi government to advance some economic and political interests. The maneuvering has already begun in determining how much water Iraq should really have,” its report said. </p> <p>Dr Mohammed al-Zubaidi, political science professor at Baghdad University, said water is already the defining factor in Iraq’s foreign relations. </p> <p>“Listen, don’t be naïve. Upriver countries dominate down river countries because they control water revenue. This gives them advantages in other fields as well,” Zubaidi said. </p> <p>“Let’s talk about Turkey and Syria. We have concerns that one day they will ask in return for water, one barrel of water for one barrel of oil. That day will come soon if Iraq maintains its ignorant strategies of wasteful water management.” </p> <p>The Baghdad government claims it is doing its part in seeking adequate water for Iraq and applying diplomatic pressure to upriver neighbours. </p> <p>“We have formed delegations to visit Turkey, Iran and Syria to speak with them about sharing water because we face a serious problem in this regard. We have sent letters demanding the need to give us more water,” Jamal al-Battiq, head of parliament’s agricultural committee, said. </p> <p>Neighbouring nations have been reluctant to address Iraq’s water woes, but Mustafa Kibargolu, a professor at Bilkent University’s international relations department, cautioned that water could be the source of conflict in years to come. </p> <p>“[There hasn’t been any] confrontation or high tension stemming from the unsatisfied demands of parties over the use of water. [But] this should not mislead observers into thinking this is unlikely,” Kibargolu said. </p> <p>“Unless some old water policies are purged and new ones introduced. It is a real possibility that this region will become a time bomb in terms of water rights.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/baghdad-urged-tackle-water-crisis" class="external" target="_blank">Baghdad Urged to Tackle Water Crisis – IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9282"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/23/%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%84%d9%88%d8%ab-%d9%8a%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-%d8%a3/#respond" title="Comment on يوم المياه العالمي: الماء الملوث يقتل أكثر من الحروب والزلازل">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a 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الحروب. <br/>واختارت الأمم المتحدة عبارة "صحة العالم من نقاوة المياه" كشعار ليوم المياه العالمي هذه السنة الذي يحتفل به يوم 22 آذار من كل عام. <br/>وقد أصدرت منظمة الصحة العالمية ومنظمة رعاية الطفولة "يونيسيف" دراسة مشتركة حول وضع المياه والمرافق الصحية في 209 دولة وإقليما، أفادتا فيها بأن 87 في المائة في سكان العالم، البالغ عددهم نحو 5,9 مليار نسمة، يستهلك مياه شرب صحية، ما يحقق هدف ألفية الأمم المتحدة في هذا المجال. <br/>ومع ذلك، لا تزال غاية توفير مرافق صحية لمليار شخصا بحلول عام 2015 بعيدة المنال.فحسب الدراسة، لا يزال 39 في المائة من سكان العالم، أي أكثر من 2,5 مليار فردا، محرومين من مرافق صحية سليمة. <br/>فأعربت سيرينا او سوليفان، من منظمة "إند ووتر بوفيرتي" في لندن، عن تشكيكها في إمكانية تحقيق غاية توفير مياه صحية للجميع. <br/>وقالت أن الدراسة المشتركة المذكورة تقول أن العالم يسير نحو بلوغ هدف المياه الصحية "لكن الوضع أكثر تعقيدا".وشرحت "أولا، تحقق هذا التقدم بفضل التحسن السريع المسجل في شرق آسيا وخاصة الصين.وثانيا، تطمس البيانات الإجمالية الفوارق الضخمة في أوضاع مختلف البلدان، وثالثا، ما زال 900 مليون شخصا دون مياه شرب صالحة". <br/>وأضافت أن أزمة المرافق الصحية والمياه تضر بالتقدم المحرز في مجالات تنموية أخري، لأنها تؤثر على 2,5 مليار شخصا وتقتل عددا من الأطفال يفوق ضحاياهم بسبب الملاريا والايدز والسل مجتمعة. <br/>وبدوره صرح انديرز بيرنتيل، مدير معهد استوكهولم الدولي للمياه قائلا، أن الدراسة المشتركة المذكورة بالغة الأهمية في مجال مواصلة رصد وضع المياه والمرافق الصحية في العالم". <br/>ومع ذلك، فالنتائج لا تزال غير مشجعة "إذا يستمر ارتفاع عدد المحرومين من المرافق الصحية السليمة"، هذا وتقضي الأمراض الناتجة عن نوعية المياه والتي يمكن وقايتها وتفاديها علي حياة 4,000 طفلا تحت سن الخمس سنوات، يوميا. <br/>كما يشغل نصف أسرة المستشفيات في العالم النامي مرضي مصابون بالإسهال، ما يؤثر بصورة سلبية كبيرة علي النظم الصحية.كذلك، تقدر الأمم المتحدة أن نصف الطفلات في مرحلة التعليم الابتدائية في أفريقيا، يتوقفن عن المواظبة علي الدراسة بسبب عدم وجود مراحيض خاصة مناسبة.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8210"> <div class="postmetadata"><span 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<p>Are crippling droughts the next great threat to Iraq? Asks <b>Martin Chulov</b>.</p> <p>BAGHDAD — From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. The waters that once spread from his doorstep across a 20% slab of Iraq known as the Marshlands first disappeared in 1991, when Saddam Hussein diverted them east to punish the rebellious Marsh Arabs. The wetlands have been crucial to Iraq since the earliest days of civilization — sustaining the lives of up to half a million people who live in and around the area, while providing water for almost two million more. </p> <p>The waters vanished after the First Gulf War due to a dictator’s wrath; over the next 16 years, they ebbed and flowed, but slowly started to return to their pre-Saddam levels. By 2007, with no more sabotage and average rains, almost 70% of the lost water had been recovered. Now it’s gone again. This time because of a crisis far more endemic: a devastating drought and the water policies of neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria. These three nations have effectively stopped most of the headwaters of the three rivers — the Tigris, Euphrates, and Karoon — that feed these marshes. </p> <p>“Once in a generation was bad enough,” says Awda, a tribal head and local sheikh in the al-Akeryah Marshlands, who also advises the Nasiriyah governorate on water issues. “Twice could well be God’s vengeance.” </p> <p>In a land where fundamental interpretations of monotheistic scripts often determine the tone of public discourse, particular attention is now being paid to the biblical Book of Revelation, in which the Euphrates River drying up was prophesized as a harbinger for the end of the world. It is not doomsday yet in Iraq, but the water shortage here has not been worse for at least the last two centuries — and possibly for several millennia more. Government estimates suggest close to two million Iraqis face severe drinking water shortages and extremely limited hydropower-generated electricity in a part of the country where most households get by on no more than eight hours of supplied power per day, in the best of times. </p> <p>The flow of the Euphrates that reaches Iraq is down, according to scientific estimates, by 50% to 70% and falling further by the week. From his frugal office in Baghdad’s National Center for Water Management, engineer Zuhair Hassan Ahmed has for the past decade plotted the water levels of the Euphrates and the Tigris, the latter of which bisects the Iraqi capital. The hand-etched ink graphs show a black line that marks an average “water year,” from October to May, superimposed over a green line, which shows the actual flow through the two rivers over the same time. The green line had been markedly lower than the benchmark for much of the past decade. But in 2007 — the start of a serious drought — it dipped sharply and has continued to fall. </p> <p>In Baghdad, the lack of water has been an inconvenience, an eyesore, and a health hazard. Raw sewage and refuse pumped into the Tigris is not flushed downstream as rapidly as it once was. The Tigris is Baghdad’s main artery, but it is also still a working river, long traversed by small commuter ferries, industrial barges, and, in the city’s halcyon days, even pleasure boats. Giant mud islands now protrude from the once wide, blue expanse of the river, making it unnavigable for larger vessels. Further downstream, and especially along the Euphrates — which runs roughly on a parallel track west though Iraq’s bread basket — the effects of the shortage are far worse. </p> <p>Between Two Rivers </p> </p> <p>Here, in the land between the two rivers that was once the heartland of ancient Mesopotamia, the water crisis has ravaged agriculture, an industry still struggling to regain its footing after three decades of deprivation and war. This was the second mooted site (the other was the Marshlands themselves) of the fabled Garden of Eden — a land so rich in soil and water that it would quench the needs of its dwellers throughout eternity. It doesn’t look quite like that now. Crops of grain, barley, mint, and dates have failed almost en masse. Further west, in Anbar province, a prized rice variety that was once sold at a premium throughout Iraq and in the markets of neighboring countries has just been harvested. Like almost all other crops, this year’s yield is a disaster. </p> <p>“We blame the Turks for this,” says Hatem al-Ansari, a local Anbar rice grower who claims to have lost half his family’s life savings since January 2009 due to a lack of water to irrigate his rice. “We have been digging wells nearby, and so has the government, but it is not enough. Not even close.” Shielding his face with a black scarf from a sandstorm blowing in on an acetylene desert wind, Hatem points in the direction of the Euphrates’ upper reaches. “If you go down to the bank, you will see where the water was last year and last week,” he says. “Our water pumps can no longer reach it. It’s true it hasn’t been raining, but it’s just as true that even 30% of normal rainfall does not cripple a mighty river like this.” He had to be taken on his word. The swirling sand and dust were starting to turn the sky an ochre-orange haze and was steadily closing like a shroud on us all, making an inspection of the river bank impossible. </p> <p>Sandstorms have long been a fixture of Iraqi summers — on average, there are about eight to ten each hot season. But this year they became a pandemic. Close to 40 sandstorms blew in during the five months from May to early October. Some lasted three days at a time, sheeting farms with suffocating silt, closing airports, and adding another layer of misery to a society that has been through hell. </p> <p>Lack of water for irrigation, especially in Anbar, is a key problem. Iraq’s water minister, Dr. Abdul Rashid Latif, says that the government dug an extra 1,000 wells over the past two years, taking advantage of a relatively high groundwater table. But drawing on a diminishing resource during a time of drought has proved costly. “We now have only around 20% of our original reserves left,” he says. “And the thing about this water is that not much of it is being replenished.” </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>“The Scent of a Dying Ecosystem” </p> </p> <p>Iraq’s water numbers make for disturbing reading across the board. Government estimates put total reservoir storage at around 9% of nationwide capacity on the leading edge of a wet season that is not forecast to bring much relief. For the past two years, rainfall was some 70% lower than usual in most of Iraq’s 18 provinces. </p> <p>The snow melt that usually feeds the Tigris system from the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdish north was equally deficient. There are now seven dams on the adjoining Euphrates system, most in Turkey and Syria, with plans for at least one more. And then there are the rampant inefficiencies built into Iraq’s antiquated 8,000 miles of canals and drains, which send countless millions of gallons gushing into parts of the country that have little use for the water, and no means to harness it even if they did. </p> <p>Some have looked to the heavens to explain the lack of rain. Society here is deeply superstitious. Many Iraqis, from the Sunni Arabs of Anbar to the tribes of the Marshlands, believe the natural deficiencies are God-ordained — and possibly a punishment for the sectarian ravages that have torn the country apart over the last three years. </p> <p>“Droughts have happened before and will plague us again,” says Awda as he surveys the vast expanse of hard-baked and cracked brown mud in front of him that used to be the Marshlands. “But not even in ’91 was the water like this. Now there is nothing.” The only water left in the maze of feeder streams that empty into this giant basin are pools of lime-colored stagnant ooze. Nothing flows. Ducks and geese sit listlessly on creek banks that have not been exposed in decades — if ever — to direct sunlight. Infestations of flies circle like Saturn’s rings around giant, steel barrels of drinking water, imported from the nearby city of Nasiriyah, that line village roads. Reeds that were once the staple of the agrarian peoples who worked this waterway through the ages jut starkly from the banks, nearly all of them yellow and hardened, looking more like medieval weapons of war than crops. </p> <p>Earlier this fall, the major tributaries of the Euphrates were flowing at around 30% of their normal levels. “Look at that mark on the bank,” says Awda, pointing to a stain on a corrugated iron beam at the base of the bridge. Not long ago, he notes, this had been a high-water mark. The waterline is now at least nine feet lower. The pungent murk of the riverbed lingers in the air. “Take a deep breath,” says Awda. “That smell is the scent of a dying ecosystem.” </p> <p>Two fishermen, who had launched themselves into what remained of the waterway in a bid to net carp, return to the banks with their haul — 12 fish, none bigger than 10 inches. The catch is not enough to feed their families, let alone take to market. Two years ago, the fish were fat and bountiful. </p> <p>“Fishing is our staple here,” explains one local man, Sheikh Hameed from Abart village, further north of the Marshlands. “That, and hunting water birds. But they’ve all flown away. I had a stall here for many years,” he recalls, pointing to an abandoned roadside hut, where he used to sell his catch. </p> <p>The white polystyrene crates that used to hold the fish on ice are now home to street cats and sand drifts. A giant water buffalo, which once spent the best part of the summer immersed in the water, is now making do with what remains. He stands motionless, buried to the midriff in a festering, black mud. The caked soil cast offers at least some respite from the heat, but with the temperature expected to hover between 118 and 124 degrees Fahrenheit for the following week, he doesn’t have long left to wallow. </p> <p>“We are digging wells for our own survival,” says Sheikh Hameed. “And this in the most water-rich area of the country. This is not God’s wrath. This is the work of people.” </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>Tweaking the Tap </p> </p> <p>Over the past six chaotic years, new reservoirs have been built into the Euphrates system on both the Syrian and Turkish sides of the border. Iraq, as a downstream country, would have likely suffered from serious water depletion even if it had a government strong enough to assert its authority against two powerful neighbors. But with a political class struggling to win legitimacy amid a sectarian war that has torn the country apart along ancient societal fault lines, there has been little time to tend even to the bare basics of survival. Delivery of services has been close to non-existent, from the national government down to village mayors. Now, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki claiming to run a credible sovereign state, work has begun in earnest on talking to the neighbors about many issues of Iraqi sovereignty, including border integrity, that have remained sidelined throughout the post-war turmoil. </p> <p>“They should realize that we are an important neighbor and share many things in life,” says Dr. Rashid, who has three times led Iraqi delegations to Istanbul and Damascus to beg for more water. He has returned with promises, but little fruit for his labors. With no treaties or agreements signed with either state, however, he has little leverage. “Our neighboring countries need to get the message that it is our right to get our share of water from these two international rivers and that we should have a say in their operational procedures because we are downstream. In our discussions they have never connected the water issues with any other issues.” </p> <p>There is trouble, too, from Iran, whose government earlier this year ordered the diversion back into Iranian territory of a key tributary of the Tigris — the Karoon River, which enters Iraq just north of the southern city of Basra. Until early this year, the Karoon had sent regularly a vital flush of freshwater down the Tigris and into the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf. The freshwater pushed back the tidal effect and allowed tens of thousands of Iraqis from the southern Marshlands to make their livelihood through fishing and farming. “There were 13 billion cubic meters of freshwater [annually] feeding into the Shatt al-Arab,” says Dr. Rashid. “Now that has gone. We have asked them to sit down and talk but they won’t even answer our requests.” </p> <p>In late October 2009, Iraqi technicians finally met with their Iranian counterparts. “They were told about the effect on the people in the south who are exclusively Shias — their people,” says Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari. “They were very embarrassed by this and promised to look into it.” Today, the saltwater of the relentless tides around Basra is still winning the push-me, pull-you game and, like a rampaging army, has pushed farther north up the waterway than ever before. As a result, some 30,000 locals have left their land, some of which has now been heavily salinated, leaving it of marginal agricultural value at best. </p> <p>Across Iraq, entire ecosystems are under threat. So far, redress from the Turks and the Syrians has consisted only of sympathetic words, followed by the occasional tweak of the tap. “We need 500 cubic meters per second,” Dr. Rashid said in August. “We have been getting 350 meters on some days, but 150 meters on average. They have promised us more, but we have yet to see it.” In the months that followed, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey three times announced a boost in the headwater flow from the Euphrates. But by late autumn, the downstream effect had been negligible. </p> <p>The giant power station in the city of Nasiriyah was still using only two of its four turbines that are normally powered by the flow of the Euphrates. One had broken down, but could not have been used anyway because, along with a second turbine, there was not enough moving water to power it. Nasiriyah was getting by on about six to eight hours of power a day — roughly the same as the rest of the country. </p> <p>Throughout the summer and fall, engineers at the power station were desperately hoping the river would not fall another eight inches, to a level that would have left Iraq’s fourth-largest city without any electricity whatsoever. “We saw it rise a centimeter or two, roughly two days after every announcement from the Turks, but it would soon drop away,” says an engineer at the power station. “The figures we were being promised were not translating into tangibles.” </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>The Rains Cometh Not </p> </p> <p>Both Turkey and Syria have been suffering from the same rainfall deficiency as Iraq. The winter storm fronts that once formed regularly near Cyprus and swept east through Syria, Jordan, and Iraq have been rare over the past three years, as have the low-pressure systems that could usually be counted on to dip south into Turkey from the Balkans and the Russian steppe. Cloud seeding and the contentious science of rain-making have been considered in all four countries. </p> <p>Jordanians, in particular, remember the 1991 winter season, when seeding was attempted near Cyprus. That year, six separate snow-bearing storm fronts swept through the country, leaving yard-deep snow drifts on the streets of the capital, Amman, for many weeks. Heavy snow also fell across the Iraqi desert plains and the Zagros Mountains. The snow melt that autumn saw the Tigris burst its banks in Baghdad. Upstream in Turkey, there is still enough reliable winter rainfall to keep the dams brimming and make cloud seeding unnecessary. Downstream in Iraq, where the water is needed most, there is neither money nor interest for such an experiment. </p> <p>Even the ancient ways are starting to fail. From June to August of this year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conducted research into the status of ancient, natural subterranean aqueducts used both for human settlement and irrigation in the Kurdish north. The UNESCO results painted a bleak picture of water resources in northern Iraq, which had for centuries boasted relatively bountiful supplies, even during harsh times. The UNESCO study found that 70% of the aqueducts, known as karez, that were producing water in 2005 had since dried up and been abandoned. Of the 683 karez surveyed, most were not functioning, due largely to excessive use and ongoing drought — only 116 still delivered water. The study claimed that 36,000 people were at risk of being displaced, while tens of thousands more had already left their lands. </p> <p>Figures in Iraq are always open to a degree of conjecture, but one reality is now clear: the water crisis is leading to mass migrations of people and a renewed displacement at both ends of the country, just as some order was starting to replace the bedlam of the invasion and civil war. Iraqis have been returning to their homes in mixed neighborhoods in Baghdad, but now rural people, fleeing in droves from the increasingly arid provinces, are also showing up in urban centers. </p> <p>The Marsh Arabs have left their lands in large numbers, according to Nasiriyah’s governor, Qusey al-Ebadi, who has yet to find ways to accommodate them. “They are nomadic people and move around during difficult times,” says al-Ebadi, “but I have never seen them coming into the cities with their animals like this.” The men of the Marshlands — now far from their ancestral lands — mill around in small groups on street corners in Nasiriyah, many searching for laboring work, looking incongruous and desperate. </p> <p>The people from the Shatt al-Arab area of the southern Marshlands also need accommodating. Government estimates suggest as many as 30,000 have left their lands, all but abandoning their agrarian livelihoods. Thousands more have been pushed to the brink of survival. If the Tigris and the Karoon do not flow again toward the Shatt al-Arab, the ecosystem they have relied on is all but finished. </p> <p>The water crisis could not have come at a worse time for Prime Minister al-Maliki, who has spent much of his time and energy as leader attempting to win enough authority to assert his will. His formula had been security first and stability second, followed by delivery of services. So far, he has achieved qualified approval on the first two, but abject failure on the third. </p> <p>Iraq’s energy sector is in a desperate state of disrepair. In late October, a rare thunder and lightning storm that brought the first rains to Baghdad in seven months caused power to crash citywide for eight hours. Even without rain, or other disturbances such as dust or wind, most residents of the capital are getting by on no more than a half-day of regular electricity, the vast bulk supplied by coal-burning energy plants that generate power channeled by substations resembling museum pieces. What little electricity supply exists is frequently targeted by militias who boast of their intent to return the society (literally) to the dark ages. Sewer lines have only been dug in the most affluent areas and city roads are, at best, rudimentary. </p> <p>With a national election looming in early March, al-Maliki knows that his current base of support across Iraq’s religious and ethnic divides is fragile. Failure to give Iraqis the essential services they have long craved — especially electricity, water, and sewerage –will likely spell his doom. Twice this fall, he has traveled to the Shia bastion of Basra to assess the plight of the Shatt al-Arab and to persuade locals that all is not lost. It is a hard sell for the people of the south, who collectively still see themselves as being as deeply deprived today as they were under Saddam. </p> <p>For the prime minister to blame his nation’s neighbors for water woes is unlikely to fly. Beyond the troubles over the water supply, al-Maliki has pointedly accused Syria of destabilizing Iraq by sheltering former Baathists, who, he claims, funded two bombing campaigns that targeted three government ministries and the Baghdad municipal government headquarters in August and October. All four buildings were annihilated, with almost 300 people killed and more than 1,000 maimed. While wagging his finger at Damascus, al-Maliki has also been constantly promising patronage to the southern tribes and an entrée to state coffers if they fall in behind him. Months before a definitive election and amid an unparalleled ecological crisis, the tribes are, at best, restless. And water is near the top of their worry list. </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>Enough Blame to Go Around </p> </p> <p>“The government didn’t do this directly, it’s true,” says tribesman Maher al-Zubaidi, as he surveys the shrinking Euphrates in Nasiriyah. “But they tell us they are strong now and yet they can’t stand up to the Turks. Wars have started in this region for a lot less. Also, Iraq constantly cries poor, yet we read about the trade minister taking a cut from every kilo of imported grain and see enormous revenues from oil. The time has long past for them to deliver.” </p> <p>The Turks, though sympathetic to the plight of their downstream neighbors, lay much of the blame at the feet of Iraqi bureaucrats who have done next to nothing to protect an already precious natural resource from atrocious water management practices. It is not uncommon to see burst water-mains spouting geysers through Baghdad’s parched suburbs or across village roads, quickly mixing with refuse and oil, turning into giant molasses-like pools. Almost all public taps invariably leak, and environmental awareness is close to nonexistent. </p> <p>Publicly, Turkey will say nothing on the subject of its water dispute with Iraq, other than that it is working with both Syria and Iran to remedy the situation and has agreed to share daily technical data with both sides on flows. After recent floods near Istanbul, a limited extra release was allowed into the Euphrates system. It was soon stopped. The saga was symptomatic of Iraq’s dilemma and its lack of means to do much about it. Again, Baghdad had to make do with what its neighbors could spare on a good day. Iraq is yet to press its case for water rights under international law and, with its hand weakened by so many ongoing woes, the government does not currently hold much sway in the region. </p> <p>The torpor is of no comfort to Iraq’s downstream dwellers. Back in al-Akeryah Marshlands, Awda Khasaf kicks a splintering skiff that used to ply the lowland waterways. The last six months, he says, have changed everything. “If the Turks release all the water that used to come down the Euphrates, then the Marshes will fill up again within two months and we will recover. But that is not going to happen. They caught the government off guard while it was obsessed with the war and now they have a chokehold on us. This has had a revolutionary effect. The Turks have the upper-hand and until we are strong enough to stand up for ourselves, all we can do is pray for a flood. Look at them. They are not serious about helping us. They are trying to build another dam [the Ilus hydroelectric plant planned for southeastern Turkey, on the northern reaches of the Tigris]. Only when we can stand up can we address this. For now…” He leaves the last thought hanging, possibly conjuring up the same apocalyptic vision that started our conversation: only the good Lord can save us. </p> <p>In the short term, it would appear that divine intervention is Iraq’s best hope. The means to address water management effectively seem decades away. Much of the country’s infrastructure belongs in scrap yards or exhibits of nineteenth-century industrial artifacts. Re-laying water pipes nationwide for urban water delivery would likely take the better part of a generation. Desalination has been considered during cabinet meetings and projects have been offered by investors from the cash-rich Gulf states, which rely heavily, if not exclusively, on desalinated water. But Iraqi officials have so far described the costs as prohibitive. “It might work out for a small state like Abu Dhabi that doesn’t need tens of thousands of kilometers of pipeline,” says one minister. “But for us, it is a non-starter for now.” </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>Globalization Woes </p> </p> <p>The crisis of 2009 has revealed some domestic inefficiencies that Iraq’s farmers will struggle to reverse. Wholesalers have been able to import and distribute fresh produce at market rates that compete successfully with what domestic consumers would have paid for locally grown produce. Hundreds of tons of bananas have been flown in from Somalia, watermelons from Iran, rice from the Far East, and bottled water from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. </p> <p>Water woes are playing a big part in turning Iraq into a net food importer. But so are the cost-efficient alternatives introduced to the Iraqi market by companies in both developing states and Western nations, all of which are clamoring to service some 20 million people who, for the most part, have always relied on homegrown produce. </p> <p>Apart from small pockets that can still harness water from the Euphrates, much of Iraq’s politically and strategically critical Anbar province is now a dust bowl. So, too, is Diyala province, north of Baghdad, which boasts some of the most fertile alluvial soil in the land. Both areas were ground zero for the Sunni militancy — Anbar the so-called triangle of death, Diyala the declared heartland of a new Islamic caliphate in 2006. The al-Maliki government had hoped to appease insurgents with the promise of prosperity. But as 2009 draws to a close, the notion seems fanciful. Family incomes are down substantially in many areas. The violence, successfully quelled throughout the past two years, is again on the rise, especially in Anbar. </p> <p>Iraq’s provinces and some of its most dangerous towns have been the focus of work throughout the past five years by American reconstruction teams, especially the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which in October wound up its mission. The engineers left, claiming that 21.2 million Iraqis now had access to potable drinking water, up from just over 5 million people immediately after the invasion. Last year, in the giant Sadr City slum in Baghdad’s northeast, the Army Corps built a treatment plant which draws and purifies water from the Tigris. The net effect, the Army claims, has been an increase from 46 to 200 in the per capita liters of water per day for Sadr City residents. The bill for the project was $65 million. </p> <p>In all, the engineers completed 25 large water distribution projects across the country as well as 800 smaller water sector projects that delivered potable water to many Iraqis who had no such luxury before Saddam fell. But now the engineers are gone. Gone with them is the bulk of America’s capacity to do more good works before the White House orders the last troops out late next year. </p> <p>Water distribution at the micro level is undoubtedly better than it was. But in a macro sense, the efforts amount to a small splash in a large pond. Iraq has giant subterranean lakes of another precious resource — oil — under the soil at both ends of the country and appears to be betting its future on turning anticipated revenues into purchasing power and regional clout today. </p> <p>Oil is Iraq’s meal ticket — a buffer against both drought and geopolitical impotence. The cabinet has been absorbed over the past six months with finding a formula that offers foreign investors enough financial incentives to bring their expertise to the badlands, while at the same time retaining control of the oil sector and the billions of petro-dollars it is likely to produce. But while the promise of future riches and power may see the waters flow again one day, on the barren plains of Iraq’s south a simpler business plan is taking shape. </p> <p>Alongside the highway between Baghdad and Basra — a giant, Saddam-era, four-lane road built to move tanks and troops — a rare agricultural success story is emerging. To travel this road in 2005-06 was to almost guarantee a run-in with a militia group, or an angry burst of bullets fired from a nearby sand berm. It remained a no-go zone to most non-Iraqis until the middle of 2008. By then, scorched wrecks of tankers lined the highway along with the charred chassis of the occasional American Hummer or private security company four-wheel-drive vehicle, conspicuous by its blackened, rusting bulk. </p> <p>Even today, giant scabs of charred bitumen are missing along the entire stretch to Basra, legacies of improvised bombs and aerial strikes that turned Iraq’s main arterial highway into a Mad Max-like wasteland. But now, dozens of salt farms line both sides of the road. There had always been a small salt industry, especially in the center of Iraq, near the cities of Babylon and Najaf, but with rapid water depletion turning lakes into shallow, salinated pools, dozens of small enterprises have now sprung up. Salt, piled in pyramid-style heaps, pockmarks the horizon of a barren landscape once covered in year-round sheets of water. One farmer sold his flock of goats to concentrate on salt. “I have around 190 kilos here,” he says, pointing at his pile. “It’s much more [profit] than I will get this year from dates.” </p> <p>The salt is then taken to market in Baghdad, where a small export industry is tipped to develop this year. Until the oil money kicks in or its neighbors turn on the taps again, success in the salt pans is likely to be a rare high-water mark for Iraq. In the short term, it would appear that divine intervention is Iraq’s best hope. The means to address water management effectively seems decades away. </p> <p><b></b> </p> <p>Martin Chulov is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/martin-chulov" class="external" target="_blank">Baghdad correspondent </a>for the Guardian of London.</p> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=36192" class="external" target="_blank">Middle East Online</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-6338"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/28/%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b6%d9%8a%d9%81-%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%ab-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b9/#respond" title="Comment on بغداد تستضيف اجتماعا وزاريا لبحث التعاون بين العراق و إيران وتركيا">No 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-crisis/" rel="tag">Water Crisis</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">اكد النائب الاول لرئيس مجلس النواب الشيخ خالد العطية توقيع اتفاقية للتعاون المشترك بين العراق والبرلمان الاوروبي في خمسة مجالات متنوعة . <br/>واوضح العطية في تصريح صحفي ان ابرام الاتفاقية جاء بعد مباحثات قام بها وفد برلماني رفيع في مدينة ستراسبورغ الفرنسية مع ممثلين عن البرلمان الاوروبي. <br/>واشار العطية الى ان الاتفاقية تهدف الى توثيق التعاون مع دول الاتحاد الأوروبي وتنشيط العلاقات في المجالات الاقتصادية والصحية والبيئية والنفطية والاستثمارية والتعليمية. <br/>ولفت العطية الى وجود مساع لتأسيس سكرتارية خاصة للبرلمان الاوروبي في بغداد، موضحا ان الوفد البرلماني دعا المسؤولين الاوروبيين الى مساندة العراق في ما يتعلق بشحة المياه، وضرورة تنظيم اتفاقات مع دول الجوار بخصوص تنظيم الحصة المائية للبلد. <br/>اضافة الى حث دول الاتحاد الاوروبي على مساعدة عناصر منظمة خلق الايرانية في اعادة توطينهم في دول الاتحاد، لاسيما ان الدستور العراقي لا يسمح بوجود اية منظمة او حزب او كيان معاد لدولة مجاورة.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-5904"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/04/21/drought-new-threat-to-stability-in-iraqs-diyala/#respond" title="Comment on Drought, new threat to stability in Iraq’s Diyala">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/04/21/drought-new-threat-to-stability-in-iraqs-diyala/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Drought, new threat to stability in Iraq’s Diyala">Drought, new threat to stability in Iraq’s Diyala</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/category/early-warning/" title="View all posts in Early Warning" rel="category tag">Early Warning</a>, 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rel="tag">irrigation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kanaan/" rel="tag">Kanaan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-crisis/" rel="tag">Water Crisis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%b9%d9%82%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%a9%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">بعقوبة‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%89/" rel="tag">ديالى</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>BAQUBA, Iraq, April 20 (<a title="Xinhua" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://english.sina.com/world/2009/0420/235290.html" class="external" target="_blank">Xinhua</a>) — Iraqi officials have warned that the water scarcity in the northeast Iraqi province of Diyala would jeopardize the stability of the region as more Iraqi families might leave the rural areas. </p> <p>"The scarcity of water has already contributed to the displacement of whole villages in many areas, including the villages of Mandali, 90 km east of (the provincial capital of) Baquba, and other villages that lie near the area of Kanaan, 23 km east of Baquba," an Iraqi official source told Xinhua. </p> <p>He expected new troubles and disputes over water if the government does not take necessary measures to prevent the crisis from growing. </p> <div style="border-right: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; padding-right: 10px; border-top: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 360px; color: rgb(0,0,0); padding-top: 10px; border-bottom: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; background-color: #fff"> <p>See also: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5345918" class="external" target="_blank">Drought Threatens Iraq’s Crops and Water Supply – ABC News</a></p> </p></div> <p>Sa’ad al-Shamri, an official in charge of irrigation in Kanaan, said "lots of villages suffer from severe water scarcity that has already led to migration from the rural areas to towns." </p> <p>"We can say that the number of those who has been displaced due to water scarcity might surpass the number of those who have been displaced due to violence," al-Shamri said. </p> <p>The official source who declined to be named also linked the migration to the water crisis, saying that "lots of families leave their villages to the towns to get water." </p> <p>He said all the measures taken by local authorities including digging wells proved to be unsuccessful and ineffective. "Most of the dug wells contained high quantities of salt water." </p> <p>A total of 55 billion dinars (47 million U.S. dollars) has been allocated to dig about 2,000 wells, of which only less than 20 percent has been completed, the source said, adding that the rest of the money has been refunded. </p> <p>The Iraqi official also affirmed that if the crisis grew more acute, it will force farmers to move to other areas searching for water. </p> <p>Mohamed el-Wisi, an administrative official of Al-Wagihiya, 13 km north of Baquba, said water shortage became a daily suffering for the villagers in the area which comprises about 65,000 donums (6,105 hectares) of cultivated land. </p> <p>He said the situation of water scarcity in the light of absence of effective measures taken by the authorities to solve the crisis prompted many families to leave, which affected agricultural production. </p> <p>Major General Tarak Abdel Wahhab el-Azzawi, commander of Diyala Operations Center, said the "water war" against Iraq started at the onset of the 1980s. He warned that ignoring the repercussions of such a "war" might make the crisis worse. </p> <p>He called on leaders of the municipalities, chieftains and even security leaders to set up plans to secure water supplies. </p> <p>An Iraqi farmer Adnan el-Magma’i, 63, said "lots of villages suffer from the drinking and irrigation water scarcity crisis." He said he owns more than 60 donums (5.6 hectares) of land where he used to grow rice, wheat and barley in addition to a small orchard and a herd of more than 250 sheep. </p> <p>"But drought and devastation hit the village, the percentage of salt water in wells increased and around 60 percent of the residents left the village to other places fearing drought," he said. </p> <p>There are only two choices ahead: to stay near their properties in case the authorities secured some quantities of water, or to leave if it goes worse, he said. </p> <p>Hussein Karim el-Shamri, a farmer, said taking baths with water from the wells led to infections with some dermal diseases. </p> <p>Meanwhile, an Iraqi security source in Diyala said there are much fears over the eruption of tribal clashes due to the crisis that resulted in encroachment against rivers and water paths and attempt by some citizens to snatch as much as they can of the available quantities of water. </p> <p>He believed that the scarcity of water will be one of the most important factors leading to the increase of violence in the near future in Diyala, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border and has long been a stronghold for al-Qaida network in Iraq. </p> <p>Some of the villages on the banks of Iraqi rivers have been, until recently, suffering from sectarian disputes and the stability of these areas is being endangered in dire need of water, he said. </p> <p>Members of the Iraqi Parliament have earlier called for including the increase of Iraq’s quota of the River Tigris and River Euphrates water in the commercial agreement between Baghdad and Ankara.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120515004243/http://english.sina.com/world/2009/0420/235290.html" class="external" target="_blank">Drought, new threat to stability in Iraq’s Diyala – World News – SINA English</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a 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