Iraq, upstream countries discuss water quotas
Iraqi people fill their bottles with water from a hole on the street in the Zahra neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq on November 16, 2016 [Hemn Baban/Anadolu Agency] December 31, 2020 at 2:50 pm
Iraq s Water Resources Minister, Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, yesterday said he would continue to coordinate enhancing the country s water quotas with upstream countries.
Speaking at the inauguration of a national project in the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar, Al-Hamdani announced that his country was determined to eliminate all violations of water quotas in Iraq. Attention to the agriculture sector is an urgent necessity for the Iraqi economy to succeed, Al-Hamdani was quoted by the official