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| Iraqi government officials are including environmental planning in the design and implementation of projects. The officials will encourage attention to environmental effects of the national reconstruction activities. |
Washington, DC -- Weekly Update #27 -- This fact sheet highlights overall accomplishments and some weekly activities from USAID’s reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
For more information on USAID’s programs in Iraq please see: www.usaid.gov/iraq
Program Overview
USAID assists Iraqis in reconstructing their country by working within the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). USAID programs are implemented in coordination with the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Coalition country partners, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector partners. The USAID Mission in Iraq carries out programs in education, health care, food security, infrastructure reconstruction, airport and seaport management, economic growth, community development, local governance, and transition initiatives.
Water and Sanitation
Accomplishments to Date:
• Nationwide: Rehabilitating sewage and water treatment plants that are currently by-passing untreated sewage generated by millions of people into the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
o Repairing and rehabilitating water systems throughout Iraq.
o Repaired hundreds of breaks in Iraq’s critical and long neglected water network, significantly increasing water flow.
• Baghdad: Expanding one water plant and rehabilitating three sewage plants.
o Rehabilitating and adding 45 percent capacity to Baghdad’s Sharkh Dijlah water plant (previously named Saba Nissan water plant), adding an additional 225,000 cubic meters a day to the water supply by July 2004, mostly in the overpopulated eastern sections.
o Installing back-up electrical generators at 41 Baghdad water facilities and pumping stations to ensure continuous water supply.
o Rehabilitating Baghdad’s sewage treatment plants Rustimiyah North, Rustimiyah South, and Kerkh to benefit 3.8 million people by October 2004.
o Rehabilitated 70 of Baghdad’s non-functioning waste lift and pumping stations.
• South Central: Rehabilitating two water plants and four sewage plants.
o Rehabilitating An Najaf and Karbala’ water treatment plants. The projects will be complete in August and November 2004, respectively.
o Rehabilitating Ad Diwaniyah and Karbala? sewage treatment plants, which serve 200,000 residents and currently discharge untreated waste into the Euphrates River. These projects are expected to be complete by August 2004 and October 2004, respectively.
o Rehabilitating An Najaf and Al Hillah sewage treatment plants to serve 194,000 residents. These projects are expected to be completed by December 2004 and August 2004, respectively.
• South: Rehabilitating the entire Sweet Water Canal system, including the canal and its reservoir, 14 water treatment plants and pumping stations, and the Safwan water system
o The system provides drinking water to 1.75 million residents of Basrah City. It had been operating at less than half capacity.
o Rehabilitated and removed 34,000 cubic meters of sand and silt from the west lobe of the settlingreservoir of the Canal, allowing it to be refilled with clean water.
o Began work on Basrah’s 14 water treatment plants in January. By summer 2004, water quality and volume will surpass prewar levels.
o Completed the restoration of the Safwan water system. All 40,000 residents now have access to potable drinking water.
• North: Rehabilitating two water plants and one sewage plant.
o Rehabilitating Kirkuk and Al Dujayl water treatment facilities and Al Dujayl sewage plant.
o Procuring reconstruction materials for the Ninawa’ Sewer and Water Directorate. This Directorate will repair projects in Mosul and the surrounding areas.
o Constructing potable water sources for towns and villages of less than 1,000 residents.
Highlights this Week:
• Community members of Ad Diwaniyah’s Al-Tamim Al Thaniyah neighborhood replaced more than 5,000 meters of water pipes, providing potable water to more than 3,000 inhabitants. Work was initiated in December 2003, when USAID Community Action Program partner Mercy Corps met with community representatives and identified the lack of potable water as their top priority. Installed in the 1980s, the community’s water pipes were badly damaged, undersized, and clogged by calcification.
See complete report at:
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/updates/apr04/iraq_fs27_041304.pdf
Source: USAID, http://www.usaid.gov/
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