Agriculture and Water Committee warns of the end of the agriculture sector in central and southern Iraq

Agriculture and Water Committee warns of the end of the agriculture sector in central and southern Iraq

Calling for the use of the economic file against Turkey ...

14/01/2018 - 11:33 Iraq



Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Water Representative Mansour al-Baiji, on Sunday, the government to use the economic file to pressure the countries of the source of water in order to increase Iraq's water share.

"The prime minister must use all means, including the economic file, to pressure countries from the source of water from which water comes to Iraq in order to increase our water quota," Bayji said in a statement.

Noting that "meetings with the Minister of Water Resources will not work if there was no increase in the share of Iraq by upstream countries, especially that there were visits to the Minister of Water Resources to Turkey, but did not bear fruit."

He called on the government to "intervene quickly" to pressure Turkey to increase Iraq's water quota, saying that "Turkey has a large economic file in Iraq, the government should use it as a means of pressure and not to take a stand by what is happening from the water war we have been exposed for a long time before Upstream countries ".

The deputy head of the Committee on Agriculture and Water Parliamentary, but added that "after the liberation of our land from the gangs of terrorist advocates are exposed today to a war of water no less dangerous than a guerrilla war, urged by the upstream countries, because it destroyed agriculture in our country after the drought of rivers in several provinces.

Adding that "the provinces of the center and the south suffer from a shortage of large water and there are thousands of acres do not reach water, because of the lack of water and lack of commitment from some of the provinces located in the Euphrates and Tigris Euphrates, which exceed the quota of water, which reflected negatively on the provinces of the center and the south" .

Baiji signed an invitation to the Ministry of Water Resources to "intervene and establish controls for these provinces to ensure access of water to each province and according to water quota because the continuation of the situation as it will lead to the end of the agricultural sector in the country, especially in the provinces of the center and the south."

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Yea, Turkey pretty much have them over a barrel on this ....