Baghdad First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, announced that water scarcity is a problem that all cities suffer from, but it is more concentrated in the southern governorates.
During his meeting, today, Saturday, with the sheikhs and notables of the clans of Dhi Qar Governorate, in the presence of MP, Dawood Aidan, Mandalawi stressed his demand to the federal government to increase attention to the southern governorates, especially Dhi Qar, which suffers from several problems, and to direct the ministers to conduct field visits to all the cities of the south to identify the problems they suffer from and find radical solutions to them.
Al-Mandalawi listened, according to the statement, to the problems that the governorate suffers from, related to water scarcity and lack of services, as he indicated that water scarcity is a problem that all cities suffer from, but it is more concentrated in the southern governorates, and solving this problem requires a government diplomatic effort and action on the source countries to increase the quantities of water, as well as the ministries of water resources and agriculture to modernize irrigation projects.
He also stressed that the coming days the House of Representatives will host the Governor of Dhi Qar, Muhammad Hadi, and the Director of Water Resources in the province, Abd al-Ridha al-Sayed Mustafa, as well as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Water Resources, Hussein Abd al-Amir, to reach the necessary solutions and procedures to solve the problem of water scarcity in the province.
There was also talk, according to the statement, about the recent tensions in the province, where the First Deputy called on the honorable clans in Dhi Qar to exercise their social role in easing these tensions and adopting peaceful means in demanding rights and working to restore stability to complete the development of infrastructure, calling for an increase in the allocations of Dhi Qar Governorate to ensure an increase in service and investment projects and their impact on the creation of new job opportunities and the advancement of the city’s reality.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency