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Participatory Consultative Meeting on Water Shortage and the Environmental Impacts on the Central Marshes

8/22/2015

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Nature Iraq Organization, in coordination with the provincial government of Maysan Governorate, as part of Jensen Project, held a joint workshop on water shortage in August 20th 2015 in the provincial Guest House at 09:30 am.

The aim of the meeting was to provide immediate recommendations and solutions to the current water crisis in the Central Marshes and most of the relevant authorities and stakeholders were present.

The following agencies were represented in this workshop: 
  1. Maysan Marsh Projects Directorate

  2. Al-Kheir Sub-district Local Council

  3. Maysan Marshes Directorate

  4. Maysan Water Resources Directorate

  5. Maysan Provincial Council

  6. Local NGO

  7. Maysan Health Directorate

The presentation was started with comparison of the water levels in the Central Marshes before and after the current crisis in 2014-2015.

The Lecturer talked about the main problems of the current crisis in the Central Marshes and In the meanwhile, a documentary on the water crisis in the marshes was shown to the attendants.

After reactive discussions among the attendants, the meeting concluded with some recommended immediate and strategic solutions to the crisis. The immediate solutions are as follows:

  1. Securing emergency water releases for the mashes as the Central Marshes need 40 m3 for two weeks in order to achieve prompt compensation and then 30 m3 continually

  2. Releasing 180m3 from Kut dam from now till the agricultural season in October with 15% of this water goes to the marshes

  3. Expanding Al-Jifir canal which is 5-7 km long to Esegle canal

  4. Constructing water pit for buffalo herders

 The strategic solutions are as follows:
  1. Adopting modern irrigation techniques

  2. Re-activating the petrochemicals factory to provide irrigation tools

  3. Putting water management plan for draught and worst scenarios

  4. Seeking political solutions with the riparian countries

  5. Benefiting from historical draught cases to deal properly with the problem

  6. Better coordination among all relevant authorities and stakeholders

  7. Activation and enforcement of the legislations against illegal uses of water like aquaria and irrigation

  8. Better and fairer management of water shares among the governorates in the Central and Lowe Euphrates



 

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Join meeting in Halabja 

8/19/2015

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​Nature Iraq ( Advocacy project staff ) prepared the join meeting in Halabja in 19.8.2015 , by the representatives of Halabja ‘s governor & his deputy also representative of Slemani Environment directorate and most of non-government organizations & total of particular persons are around 25 .
The aim of the meeting was to identify the most Environment issues and water pollution issues in Halabja’s area.
All of participated were decided to continue meetings about protecting Environmental conditions in the area . The result of the join meeting was to safe  ‘’Zalm’’ ‘s water source , and the stakeholders agreed to protect ‘’Zalm’’ ‘s river by closing car wash spot in that area . This is our next action in Halabja.

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Joint meeting with Environmental NGOs regarding the Draft of the Water Management and Protection Law in KRG

8/18/2015

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One of the activities of Nature Iraq organization as a part of Environmental Law and Advocacy Project is to conduct regular joint meetings. On 18 August 2015, a joint meeting among environmental NGOs in Sulaimaniya was held in Sawa Centre Hall, KEDO (Kurdistan Economic Development Organization). This joint meeting is an integral part of the previous meeting with the Head Deputy of Agriculture Committee in the Sulaimaniya Parliament office. Representatives of 15 NGOs and two water experts from Sulaimaniya University were participated in that meeting. The aim of the meeting is to lead tangible outcomes from the key stakeholders and the experts and identifying their observations on the Draft of Water Management and Protection Law in KRG. This meeting has two parts: during the first part, 25 out of 39 articles of the draft law were reviewed, and for the second part of the meeting that will be held soon, the other 14 articles will also be reviewed, and then the recommendations will be created for the draft law and send to the concerned committee. Nature Iraq is optimistic about the result of that meeting as this kind of work can allow more cooperation and transparency between the NGOs and the KRG to be taken place.
 
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Happy Swimmable Water Weekend

8/2/2015

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Before starting swimming in the lake, clean up for a big area in Dukan Lake was conducted. A bunch of volunteers, friends and water lovers came out to show our love to our lake during #SwimmableWater Weekend.

 All participants had a great swim and spoke to people, telling them why we do this on this day, raising awareness about pollution and climate change.

Thank you to all my great volunteer friends.

Iraq Upper Tigris Waterkeeper

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