Ministry of Water Resources (Iraq)

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]

Republic of Iraq
Ministry of Water Resources
وزارة الموارد المائية
Emblem of Iraq
Agency overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Iraq
HeadquartersRusafa, Baghdad Iraq
33°20′28″N 33°20′28″E
Agency executive
  • Mahdi Rashid Mahdi, Minister
WebsiteOfficial website

References and notes
  1. "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
  2. "Ministry of Water Resources", globalsecurity.org, undated
  3. "Amb. Bremer Transfers Full Sovereignty to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, 10 May 2004


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