The Ministry of Water Resources is a ministry within the government of Iraq. Headed since May 2020 by Mehdi Rasheed Mehdi, it is responsible for water management, including maintenance of the extensive system of irrigation canals and dams and other related tasks. Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the ministry was known as the Ministry of Irrigation and employed 12,000 Iraqis, as well as 6,000 contract employees. The ministry was divided into five separate commissions and eleven state-owned companies. This was eventually reduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority to six Directors General.[1] The Ministry's budget was increased to 150 million United States dollars for 2004, compared to USD 1 million under the recent government of Saddam Hussein. It was also retasked with flooding the southern marshlands that had been ordered drained.[2] On 10 May 2004, CPA administrator Paul Bremer declared the Ministry to be fully autonomous with Latif Rashid as its head at the time.[3]
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Iraq |
| Headquarters | Rusafa, Baghdad  33°20′28″N 44°26′17″E / 33.341°N 44.438°E |
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| Website | Official website |
References and notes edit
- ^ "Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources is similar to Corps" Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine by Thomas O'Hara and , Engineer Update, Vol. 27 No. 11, November 2003
- ^ "Ministry of Water Resources", globalsecurity.org, undated
- ^ "Amb. Bremer Transfers Full Sovereignty to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, 10 May 2004
External links edit
- Iraq Ministry of Water Resources official website
- Official site of the Ministry of Water Resources under the Kurdistan Regional Government
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