Water Resources Projects in Iraq: Medium and Small Storage Dams

摘要

Many medium and small dams were built in Iraq. These dams are distributed inthree major areas. First is the northern area where many dams built in the periodafter 2003, even there are some that built in 1980s. Second, is the dams built in theeastern valleys, but these prove to be inefficient due to high rate of sedimentationeven in the live storage. Third, is the dams in the western desert. These dams werehighly exploited in 1970s and 1980s to harvest as much as possible in this large andpromising area and providing the livelihood conditions to settle people. The areahas no more projects due to security issues.