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Water in Iraq

  • Iraq has completed a new $146-million project to supply drinking water to much of Baghdad’s people.

    IRAQ, 2012/12/23 Iraq has completed a new $146-million project to supply drinking water to much of Baghdad’s people. Saleh al-Mutlaq, deputy prime minister for service affairs, told Al-Shorfa: “The ministry of municipalities opened the Abu Ghraib Great Water Project … It will provide drinking water to houses through modern networks, and will cover about 50% of capital’s residents … The project is designed to serve the area for 25 years, and will be expanded later in consideration of people increase and urban expansion.”