The Prime Minister directs the launch of the first package of irrigation and water projects scheduled to be implemented with Turkey

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani directed the launch of the first package of irrigation and water projects scheduled to be implemented with Turkey. A statement from his media office said that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chaired a meeting today devoted to discussing the first package of water projects within the framework agreement between Iraq and Turkey, signed between the two sides last April, which includes 13 projects, in addition to projects that fall within the investment plan. Al-Sudani stressed, during the meeting, that launching these projects will provide new management of the water file, indicating the importance of focusing on treatment plants, sewage projects, water resources projects, and strategic projects, as well as the necessity of studying agricultural reclamation and irrigation projects, and water confinement dams through a group of relevant ministries, and forming technical teams in each ministry to select future strategic projects. Al-Sudani directed the launch of the first package of projects, especially with the availability of the allocated amounts, as well as the formation of a specialized technical team in the Ministry of Water Resources, based on the joint agreement, to handle technical matters, archiving and communication with the Turkish side, and to make use of the expertise available to them. The projects were distributed as follows: 6 projects within the Ministry of Water Resources, 5 projects within the responsibility of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities, and two projects within the Ministry of Agriculture, and they varied between irrigation network reclamation projects, closed irrigation systems, or main and branch canal drainage projects, or dams for water storage. Source: National Iraqi News Agency