The Water Department in Babil on Friday attributed the shortage of drinking water in the province to high temperatures, excessive use and frequent excesses on pipelines, pointing to the failure to expand the Hilla water purification project, which was built at the end of the 1980s due to the lack of liquidity and the impact of the country. Financial austerity.
"There is a shortage of drinking water in the governorate due to high temperatures, improper and excessive use of potable water, frequent excesses on the water distribution network by citizens, distribution networks and a large number of shamplan grass, Water, in addition to the expansion of the project of water purification in the city of Hilla and introduced, which was built in 1989, and the water produced is not commensurate with the population density of the city of Hilla, which increased by a large proportion and stop work on new projects for the liquidation of water and distributed to a number of districts and districts in the province because of the lack of Financial assets ".
Tarrad pointed out that "the Department of water in the province of Babylon has submitted since 2012 studies and disclosures and plans for the local government to expand the project of water purification in the city of Hilla, which has a production of 6000 thousand cubic meters per hour as well as the replacement of old water networks made of asbestos and was included in the plan for the development of regions for 2012 and subsequent years But it has not been implemented so far for many reasons, including the absence of financial allocations. "
"We now have a water complex with a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters per hour in the Hilla project, which is suspended, although it is 89 percent because of the financial reality," Tarrad said.
"We now have five major projects for the production of pure water, namely the water desalination project in Musayyib, with a production capacity of 6 thousand cubic meters per hour. The second project is the Kefal project and 4000 cubic meters per hour. The third project is the Hashemite water project with a production capacity of 6,000 meters The fourth project is the project of Mahaweel and a filter card of up to ten thousand cubic meters per hour. The fifth project is a water project in Abu Gharq with a production capacity of four thousand cubic meters per hour and the work is suspended. "
"There is a shortage of drinking water in the governorate due to high temperatures, improper and excessive use of potable water, frequent excesses on the water distribution network by citizens, distribution networks and a large number of shamplan grass, Water, in addition to the expansion of the project of water purification in the city of Hilla and introduced, which was built in 1989, and the water produced is not commensurate with the population density of the city of Hilla, which increased by a large proportion and stop work on new projects for the liquidation of water and distributed to a number of districts and districts in the province because of the lack of Financial assets ".
Tarrad pointed out that "the Department of water in the province of Babylon has submitted since 2012 studies and disclosures and plans for the local government to expand the project of water purification in the city of Hilla, which has a production of 6000 thousand cubic meters per hour as well as the replacement of old water networks made of asbestos and was included in the plan for the development of regions for 2012 and subsequent years But it has not been implemented so far for many reasons, including the absence of financial allocations. "
"We now have a water complex with a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters per hour in the Hilla project, which is suspended, although it is 89 percent because of the financial reality," Tarrad said.
"We now have five major projects for the production of pure water, namely the water desalination project in Musayyib, with a production capacity of 6 thousand cubic meters per hour. The second project is the Kefal project and 4000 cubic meters per hour. The third project is the Hashemite water project with a production capacity of 6,000 meters The fourth project is the project of Mahaweel and a filter card of up to ten thousand cubic meters per hour. The fifth project is a water project in Abu Gharq with a production capacity of four thousand cubic meters per hour and the work is suspended. "
He pointed out that "the Ministry of Municipalities agreed with the companies working to build those projects by launching financial allocations for them to complete projects, especially projects Mahaweel and Abu Gharq because the percentage of achievement 90%," noting that "the completion of these projects will eliminate the scarcity of water in the province."
He explained that "the project of water villages of Hilla - Mahaweel capacity (10000 m 3 / o) and cost more than 100 billion dinars and is one of the strategic projects as it provides drinking water to the areas of Mahawil and the surrounding villages and the small house of the city of Hilla and a group of tourist villages.
He revealed that "Shambalan grass, which is very much in the rivers of Babylon, caused problems for the water cycle, especially in front of the pumps of the withdrawal of raw water, which causes extinguishing those pumps to clean them from the shampoo, and this affects and stops the stations."
He added that "the Department of water Babylon is working to deliver drinking water to all districts and areas of the province in various ways, including the work of connections or marching and rotation in order to provide drinking water has been successful these roads in addition to the establishment of a fleet of water transport vehicles of the Department of water Babylon to deliver water to villages and remote places, Our suffering from the lack of material used for cars. "
"We now have 385 water purification plants with capacities ranging from 50 cubic meters to 500 cubic meters per hour distributed over districts, districts and villages, and more than 60 percent of them need rehabilitation, maintenance and financial allocations," he added.
He stressed that his department does not have any financial resources allocated from the ministry for maintenance, "We rely only on the collection of funds from citizens in exchange for access to clean water, a few funds do not meet the needs of the Department."
"Everything can be dispensed with, and even electricity, but water, because it is the first life saver. Now the water in Hilla suffers from constant scarcity and causes great suffering. In the summer season, we need water in large quantities. We complain that the reason for the scarcity is the project's progress, its lack of development and the addition of new units. "
"We buy drinking water from the markets and shops and have become a financial hardship for us. He called on the local government to work on developing the Hilla water project and supplying it with new drinking water systems so that citizens can have access to safe drinking water."
The reconstruction committee in the Babil Governorate Council announced on Monday, 1/6/2015, the formation of a crisis cell to address the water shortage in Abi Gharq, east of Hilla and Al-Kafel, south of Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad. Water in the Euphrates River, indicated that the committee has begun its work to address this problem.
"The MP held an important meeting in the Ministry of Water Resources building, including advisers and general directors of the ministry, in addition to the directors of the concerned departments of Diwaniyah province," the media office of MP Hoda Sajjad said in a statement. .
He added that "the meeting focused on the issue of water scarcity, where the participants reached timely solutions, stressing the agreement on a field visit Friday by a ministerial team in addition to future treatments."
According to the statement, "the meeting was the discussion of all solutions, and the possibility of application, where solutions were reached and immediate and far-reaching."
She explained that "the immediate solutions summed up commissioned an additional engineering effort from the Ministry of Water Resources to visit Diwaniyah, and operates a system of three lips until the end of the crisis in the province, and increase the number of workers in the project to ensure the continued cleaning and shorten the time, and the formation of a ministerial team of senior officials of the Ministry for the purpose of visiting the province of Diwaniya" .
The province of Babylon suffers from the problem of water scarcity in the Euphrates River and Shatt al-Hillah because of the decline of their employees of water, which has greatly affected the cities that feed them.
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He explained that "the project of water villages of Hilla - Mahaweel capacity (10000 m 3 / o) and cost more than 100 billion dinars and is one of the strategic projects as it provides drinking water to the areas of Mahawil and the surrounding villages and the small house of the city of Hilla and a group of tourist villages.
He revealed that "Shambalan grass, which is very much in the rivers of Babylon, caused problems for the water cycle, especially in front of the pumps of the withdrawal of raw water, which causes extinguishing those pumps to clean them from the shampoo, and this affects and stops the stations."
He added that "the Department of water Babylon is working to deliver drinking water to all districts and areas of the province in various ways, including the work of connections or marching and rotation in order to provide drinking water has been successful these roads in addition to the establishment of a fleet of water transport vehicles of the Department of water Babylon to deliver water to villages and remote places, Our suffering from the lack of material used for cars. "
"We now have 385 water purification plants with capacities ranging from 50 cubic meters to 500 cubic meters per hour distributed over districts, districts and villages, and more than 60 percent of them need rehabilitation, maintenance and financial allocations," he added.
He stressed that his department does not have any financial resources allocated from the ministry for maintenance, "We rely only on the collection of funds from citizens in exchange for access to clean water, a few funds do not meet the needs of the Department."
"Everything can be dispensed with, and even electricity, but water, because it is the first life saver. Now the water in Hilla suffers from constant scarcity and causes great suffering. In the summer season, we need water in large quantities. We complain that the reason for the scarcity is the project's progress, its lack of development and the addition of new units. "
"We buy drinking water from the markets and shops and have become a financial hardship for us. He called on the local government to work on developing the Hilla water project and supplying it with new drinking water systems so that citizens can have access to safe drinking water."
The reconstruction committee in the Babil Governorate Council announced on Monday, 1/6/2015, the formation of a crisis cell to address the water shortage in Abi Gharq, east of Hilla and Al-Kafel, south of Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad. Water in the Euphrates River, indicated that the committee has begun its work to address this problem.
"The MP held an important meeting in the Ministry of Water Resources building, including advisers and general directors of the ministry, in addition to the directors of the concerned departments of Diwaniyah province," the media office of MP Hoda Sajjad said in a statement. .
He added that "the meeting focused on the issue of water scarcity, where the participants reached timely solutions, stressing the agreement on a field visit Friday by a ministerial team in addition to future treatments."
According to the statement, "the meeting was the discussion of all solutions, and the possibility of application, where solutions were reached and immediate and far-reaching."
She explained that "the immediate solutions summed up commissioned an additional engineering effort from the Ministry of Water Resources to visit Diwaniyah, and operates a system of three lips until the end of the crisis in the province, and increase the number of workers in the project to ensure the continued cleaning and shorten the time, and the formation of a ministerial team of senior officials of the Ministry for the purpose of visiting the province of Diwaniya" .
The province of Babylon suffers from the problem of water scarcity in the Euphrates River and Shatt al-Hillah because of the decline of their employees of water, which has greatly affected the cities that feed them.
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