The Department of Geography at the College of Education at the University of Maysan organized a seminar on the problems of the water balance of Iraq in the presence of professors and graduate students. The seminar included a lecture delivered by Professor Dr. Kazim Shanta Saad, a review of many of the problems that Iraq’s water balance suffers from, which effectively contribute to threatening Iraq’s water security and its reaching the so-called water poverty line. The seminar showed the repercussions of climate change, drought, evaporation, and water pollution, as well as the seasonal flow of Iraqi and international rivers and the pollution of their waters, on the reality of the quantities and quality of water coming into Iraq.
The seminar also included a discussion of the impact of water management and irrigation methods used on the large waste of water in light of the conditions of drought and water scarcity that the country suffers from. The seminar concluded that the steady increase in the population of Iraq over the coming decades, which is undoubtedly accompanied by the increasing need for water, will leave Iraq facing difficult challenges that are not It’s easy to bypass it. The seminar recommended the necessity of following objective water management that prioritizes the optimal water policy for agricultural, industrial and civil use in light of the challenges of current water scarcity and reducing the outlets for water wastage, in addition to establishing water harvesting dams in flood areas during the rainy season of the year to spare the country a stage of severe water poverty that may threaten Its economic and political security.
