The Ministry of Water Resources is a ministry within

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. The current minister is Aoun Diab. It it is responsible for

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, including maintenance of the extensive system of irrigation

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s and

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s 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

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to six Directors General. The Ministry's budget was increased to 150 million United States dollars for 2004, compared to USD 1 million under the recent government of

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. It was also retasked with flooding the southern marshlands that had been ordered drained. On 10 May 2004, CPA administrator

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declared the Ministry to be fully autonomous with Latif Rashid as its head at the time."Amb. Bremer Transfers Full Sovereignty to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources
10 May 2004 One of the important ministers: Mohammed Dhari al Shibli

References and notes

External links

Iraq Ministry of Water Resources official website

Official site of the Ministry of Water Resources
under the

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