90% of water shortage solved in Erbil, says Water Directorate
09/07/2012 14:46
ERBIL, July 9 (AKnews) – Erbil’s Water Directorate said 90
percent of water shortage problems have been solved in Erbil and many of
the city's neighborhoods had water problems in the past few months.
Directorate
spokesman Massoud Mohammed said: "Erbil city had water problems from
the middle of May until the beginning of June but now 90 percent of the
shortage has been fixed.
"Only 10 percent of the city has
water issues, such as Sarkarezan, Galwezh and Sebardan neighborhoods due
to drought. It is expected that the directorate will sort this problem
in the next few days."
Mohammed added that the directorate is now working on two water projects - surface-water project 3 and 4.
The
neighborhoods suffering from a lack of water are 159 Gulan, Khanzad,
Sarwaran 2, Raparin 2, Kuwestan and Nawroz due to power cuts.
By Dawan Hadi
HH/DM/AKnews
