Iraq asks Turkey to discharge more water into Tigris, Euphrates rivers

2022-07-18 12:48:09

(MENAFN) Iraq has urged Turkey to allow more water to flow into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to the Arab nation's long-standing water deficit in Mesopotamia, sparking a water conflict between the two neighboring countries.

According to an Iraqi statement, Iraq's Water Resources Minister Mehdi al-Hamdani has asked Turkey's president's special envoy for Iraq, Veysel Eroglu, to enhance "quantities of water arriving in Iraq through the Tigris and Euphrates."

Hamdani informed Eroglu via video-conference to urge Turkish officials “to re-examine the amounts of water released, in order to allow Iraq to overcome the current water shortage," it noted.

Eroglu also stated he would pass on the request to water authorities in Ankara to "increase the amounts of water released in the coming days, according to (Turkey's) available reserves", the announcement claimed.

The two leaders also agreed that an Iraqi "technical delegation" would visit Turkish dams to assess the country's water supplies.

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