The Ministry of Water Resources of Iraq that Iraq is studying offers from three foreign companies to develop a strategic plan period of 30 years for the management of water resources during the prolonged dry spell possible.

The Ministry of Water Resources of Iraq that Iraq is studying offers from three foreign companies to develop a strategic plan period of 30 years for the management of water resources during the prolonged dry spell possible.

The director of water resources Aoun clothes Abdullah was invited initially to 15 companies to submit bids for the project, which cost 50 million dollars, but only three companies have shown interest in the British companies, Russia and Italy. And the winner will be announced within a month. The plan aims to help the government develop a policy for water resources over the past thirty years. "Abdullah said the study is important because of significant changes that have occurred due to the decrease of water resources. And Iraq, mostly in the desert and irrigated regions inhabited by the Tigris, which comes from Turkey and the Euphrates, which comes from Turkey too, but he passes from Syria in addition to a network of smaller rivers from Iran and some of them feeds the Tigris. and have caused several years of severe drought damage to Iraq's agricultural sector ravaged by war and suffering from a lack of investment to turn the country that was one of the largest exporters of food to various parts of the region to One of the biggest importers of wheat and rice in the world. In addition, reduced hydroelectric dams in neighboring countries like Turkey, the flow of water through the major rivers, triggering angry protests from Iraqi officials. "Abdullah said that the planned study will guide the Government on how to use the limited water the best they could to meet the This shortage and environmental changes. "It a master plan for Iraq.