May 9, 2010Syria is planning to draw water from the Tigris to the territory to support Kuwait
Resources promised a circumvention of international conventions and demanded the government remedy the problem
بغداد – الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Warned the Ministry of Water Resources of the plan announced by Syria to set up a project supported by Kuwait for the irrigation of about 200 thousand hectares of its territory by withdrawing water from the Tigris river for long distances inside Syrian territory, considering that this is a circumvention of international agreements of water, asked for experts that are responsible action to know the dimensions of this project.
The Director of the Water Department in the Ministry of Water Resources Awni Diab was quoted as saying, "Alsumaria News", "What is planning on Syria, by converting part of the Tigris River to the depth of its territory is to circumvent international agreements on water," and urged the government to "take this matter very seriously. "
Diab and warned that "Syria's withdrawal of the Tigris River and in large quantities will have a negative impact on Iraq's share of the waters of the Tigris River," asserting that "states of the source always forget about the needs of the downstream countries and we see the lack of interest in these countries needs in Iraq."
The Tigris flows and length of 1718 km from the Golan Heights, south-east Anatolia in Turkey to Syria for a distance of 45 km only in the suburbs of the city of Qamishli to enter the territory of Iraq after the town of Fish Habor in the province of Dohuk.
And flows into the river reaches a wide range of deployed in the territory of Turkey, Iran and Iraq, perhaps the most important and the longest Khabour, and the Great Zab and Little Zab, and the great, and the Diyala River.
For his part, stressed the expert in the Ministry of Water Resources Zuhair Khalil, that any "exploitation of the waters of rivers shared by Syria must be coordinated with Iraq."
Khelil added that "Syria's goal of this project if the provision of drinking water can be tolerated, because the drinking water do not take large amounts, but if the purpose was to irrigate agricultural land That will affect the future of Iraq because it would be at the expense of its share of water."
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