DEVELOPMENT AID/POLITICS

Iraq: Thames Water started work on a Unicef-funded project to establish mobile treatment plants drawingwater from the River Tigris.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s newly formed water directorate commenced discussions with Black & Veatch about a project to update a water master plan for Baghdad that Binnie & Partners first prepared in the early 1980s. Water shortages in Baghdad are now critical and likely to cause further unrest. The city’s eight million residents normally consume 4Mm3/d of water but treatment ...

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