Resources: 27 projects to be initiated in 2024, 29 JAN

 Resources: 27 projects to be initiated in 2024

Economy News _ Baghdad

The Ministry of Water Resources has started 16 projects for the current year, revealing that it has completed 11 other projects last year.

Minister Aoun Diab Abdullah said in an interview with "Al-Sabah" followed by "Economy News", that the ministry owns within the government program, 27 projects, 11 of which were completed during the past year, while the competent technical and engineering staff began implementing the remaining 16 at the beginning of this year, which he noted that some of them achieved varying completion rates in previous times before stopping for several reasons.

He pointed out that the 11 projects completed during the past year are reclamation operations for each of the lands of Suwaihiyah in Muthanna, a section of Hor Najm, part of the lands of the Shafi'i Diwaniya, part of the lands of Bani Hassan, ten thousand dunums in Husseiniya, and part of the lands of Ramadi, in addition to the rehabilitation of part of the first phase of the northern island irrigation project, in addition to the establishment of Nazim Sadr Al-Shatra in the district of Shatrah, with the preparation of electrical and mechanical equipment to install a pumping station in Hor Najm, in addition to the completion of From the northern part of the water channel to the Shatt al-Arab.

Regarding the 16 projects that began work at the beginning of 2024, Abdullah explained that they include the reclamation of 20,000 dunums as a fourth phase in the Saad River project and will be completed by the end of 2024,

In addition to the reclamation of 15,000 dunums, in addition to 20,000 dunums in the Saad River, which has already completed 86% of its work, in addition to the reclamation of seven thousand dunums of Husseiniya lands and will be completed during the next month, in addition to large numbers of projects in Dhi Qar Governorate with an area of 14,200. Dunums, as well as the start of the critical area works for the Basra water project, and the reclamation of 36,000 dunums for the (Diwaniyah-Shafi'i) project, 77 percent of which was previously completed, while it will be completely completed during the current year.