(MENAFN) Turkey will receive an Iraqi government delegation to hold talks over the country's water share amid environmental concerns over Turkey's Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River.
Iraqi Water Resources Minister Hassan al-Janabi told the al-Sabaah newspaper on Saturday that the scheduled visit will take place soon. "All regions of Iraq face the danger of water scarcity," he said.
Last December, Janabi warned that farmers in swathes of southern Iraq had too little water to plant and that some areas may face drinking water shortage in the summer.
He also expected that the amount of water flowing in key Iraqi rivers had dropped by at least 40 percent in recent decades due to erratic rainfall and construction of dams in neighboring countries.
Damage to Iraq's own dams and other substructure from years of counter-terrorism battle has also affected water supplies, the minister added.
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