Damascus-Sana
The Ministry of Water Resources focused its efforts during 2019 on improving the reality of drinking water in all governorates, developing the sewage system and working to raise pollution on water sources in addition to expanding water harvesting projects and searching for suitable sites to construct and implement water dams and dams to take advantage of every drop of water.
In the field of drinking water, the Ministry has implemented a number of important projects to secure drinking water in Damascus and its countryside, most notably the installation of three electrical generating sets with capacities of / 100-500-250 / kVA for the spring of Al-Fijah, and the completion of the construction of the new direct campus sanctuary in the spring and the completion of the rehabilitation of the Barada booster line for Jerusalem .
In a statement on its work for the year 2019, SANA received a copy of it, the Ministry indicated that it had repaired the electrical generation kits at the second treatment plant in Khafsa, Aleppo, each of which could be / 1470 / kVA, with the supply and installation of three kits each with a capacity of / 2000 / kVA, which increased From the production of the plant from drinking water in the amount of / 100 / thousand cubic meters per day, as well as the rehabilitation of the sand refineries facility in the first treatment plant and the installation and piloting of pumping groups and their accessories in the second treatment plant in Al-Khafsah The fourth project / the second stage in addition to the implementation of pumping stations in Salah Al-Din regions- Al-Faidh and the rehabilitation of a housing pumping station west - Al-Assad facility Brigade eighty village Brive Aleppo.
The statement pointed out that the rehabilitation of the northern countryside stations in Homs has been completed, the rehabilitation of Ain Al-Tannour pumping station, the implementation of the watering project of Shinshar and the projects to replace the lines of pumping nuclei of chocolates - Al-Mastourah pumping line - the liquefaction liquefaction line - while a tank with a capacity of 5 thousand cubic meters of water was implemented in Hama to quench the city of Masyaf, follow-up on the rehabilitation and repair of the first Hama water line, and follow up the implementation of the second Hama water line project, which will secure 4 times the current water.
With regard to Deir Al-Zour, the Ministry stated in its statement that the water pumping stations were rehabilitated - the martyr Basil Al-Assad - Al-Shamtiya - Al-Turaif - Al-Othmaniya - Al-Tayyibah and Al-Dablan - / Khasham-Suwaidan-Tishreen-Al-Kuryah-Al-Ghubrah-Hawijah Al-Ghubrah-Albukamal.
In Tartus, the Qamasiya water project has been completed to irrigate 35 villages in Tartous countryside, and linking the stations of the Dilaba project / first / third / fifth / with an independent tension line to secure continuity of electrical feeding to the three stations within the Dilpa project in the Dreikish region, while the completion of the project to irrigate the Al-Maysaitarah wells from wells Kfardebeel in Lattakia countryside.
In As-Suwayda and Daraa, the statement indicated that the ministry has implemented a water line to connect the new Sahwa Balata well with the station's tank with a length of 1100 meters in Sweida, and the completion and implementation of 15 pumping stations in Daraa governorate.
In the field of sanitation, the ministry has implemented many “treatment plants, sewage lines and estuaries” with the aim of lifting pollution from drinking water, irrigation, dams and rivers, human and plant protection and the environment, the most important of which is the completion of the implementation of sewage treatment plants - summer resorts - Siyano al-Hawiz - disbelief Rasas - Qlaia Al-Dallaba - Miskas - Al-Maasarat -Safita-Umrah-Jamaria-Yabrud-Jadida Al-Jadid- Abu Hoori-Al-Barjan- Also, the implementation of sewage lines and estuaries has been completed, including 14 sewage estuaries in the western Hama countryside and 7 in Quneitra and estuaries for three projects in Daraa - the Darikish Dam Protection Line - the drainage project Sanitation in Al-Hafah - Canal C project for sanitation and rain in Al-Latah Yeh-and-Alveabih Husseiniya-cladding Brive Damascus Bachin-Qamhana Hama -srstan- Broummana elders in Tartous.
A number of direct pumping stations were also followed up, including - Ghamkma - Mishwar - Al-Ajmi in Tartous - to lift pollution from the beach of Tartous City and to initiate projects to replace sewage lines in the areas of - Maadi in Aleppo - Al Duwailah - the channels in Damascus - replace the sand withdrawal system with the Adra and Mubasher treatment station The implementation of the important treatment plant in Damascus countryside, within the works of the project to lift pollution from the Barada River, in addition to giving direct order to implement the treatment station in Jaba
In the field of irrigation and dams, 6 water dams have been completed, which are - Smehaikh - Al-Zahra - Al-Dafla - Al-Qal'a - Al-Kufr 2 - Al-Kufr 3
Work is also being carried out to implement the Ein El-Tineh dam in Lattakia, the dams of Menna, Ain Al-Daleemah, Tartous, Kafr Aqid, Al-Khansa and Mardash in Hama, and work to rehabilitate the dams - Al-Haffah in Lattakia-Taldo in Homs-Wadi Al-Raqqad in Quneitra-the martyr Basil Al-Assad in Daraa and implement the second stage of storage basins for the spring With a storage volume of 181 thousand cubic meters, with the construction of a pumping station for the project and the completion of the third stage of storage basins for the spring in addition to contracting to complete the "fourth stage", the Ministry has dismantled parts of the two rivers of the Barada and Al-Ouj river and contracted to rehabilitate the dam and construct the eastern spillway of the Dam Dam It is in the countryside of Damascus and contracting to implement emergency measures to accommodate the flood wave and prevent the passage of water through the gap in the summit of the Raqqad Dam in Quneitra and complete the implementation of the wells of al-Mukarramah in the province of Sweida and put them in service.
The Ministry of Water Resources has set among its priorities the restoration of irrigation projects and the repair of damages suffered as a result of terrorism. The rehabilitation of the Western housing project, which irrigates / 34107 / hectares of Aleppo lands, has been completed and the implementation of the rehabilitation of the Al-Assad facility project to irrigate 17 thousand hectares and the rehabilitation of the East housing project for irrigation An area of 17800 hectares, of which 7292 hectares, in Al-Raqqa Governorate.
Rehabilitation of pumping stations - Al-Mughala - Al-Buhamad - Al-Suwaida - to irrigate 6000 hectares, rehabilitated irrigation and drainage networks for the Mughala project in Raqqa, and contracted to rehabilitate the third sector in Deir Al-Zour for an area of 10700 hectares, and implemented three important bridges - Cables - Zaaria - Blat - to serve citizens.
The following are the most important actions carried out by the Ministry during / 2019 / 3-2 / the launch of the electronic reading project for water meters and the opening of the one-stop shop for serving subscribers in the Lattakia Water Corporation with the aim of simplifying the procedures and reducing the burden on the citizens fraternity.
/ 28-3 / Opening of a drinking water pumping station in Waqfah in the western countryside of Raqqa, liberated, with a capacity of 550 cubic meters per hour, to irrigate 19 villages.
/ 7-5 / Putting a new project in Abdullah Tartous countryside into service, which tells more than 20 villages.
/ 14-5 / Delivering water to the Workers' neighborhood in Deir Al-Zour after it had been interrupted for eight years as a result of the terrorist attacks.
/ 17-6 / Putting a project to serve Marshour in Hama to serve to improve the water situation in the towns of Maharshur / Qason Al-Jabal / Kafa'a.
/ 27-6 / Inauguration of the third phase of the Rabwah wells project, at a cost of / 433 / million Syrian pounds, which includes the processing and investment of 7 wells with a total mass of 13 thousand cubic meters per day.
/ 16-7 / Establishing / 5 / service collection centers in Tartous countryside.
/ 23-7 / The Ministry of Water Resources announces a competition and testing to appoint and employ / 3106 / workers to work for the related authorities in a number of governorates.
/ 10-10 / Putting the liquid chlorine production unit to sterilize the spring water in Lattakia with a capacity of 8 thousand liters every 6 hours.
/ 11-10 / Inauguration of a supportive project for the villages - Fahel - Rabah - Kfram - Al Maranah - Sheen - in Homs countryside from wells and springs at Mastoura, at a cost of 350 million Syrian pounds.
/ 24-10 / Inauguration of a group storage tanks project in the town of Al-Kufr in Sweida, at a cost of about 600 million pounds, which is 3 water dams. The storage capacity of each of them is about 130 thousand cubic meters of water.
/ 11-11 / The General Organization for Drinking Water and Sewerage in Homs returns to provide its services at its headquarters after completing its rehabilitation and restoration from the severe damage caused to it as a result of the terrorist attacks.
/ 16-11 / Inauguration of two water projects, Kfartlash and Cave of Dhoyat, supporting the Tartous countryside, at a cost of 380 million, and irrigating 23,000 people.
/ 19-11 / Inauguration of the Al-Hariadi spring pumping project in Slunfah, in Lattakia countryside, which supports the Goren water project.
/ 26-11 / Inauguration of the project to improve the nobility water network through the implementation of two water tanks with a capacity of / 150 / cubic meters, the replacement of part of the old water lines and the implementation of new lines.
/ 4-12 / Inauguration of the irrigation project for Al-Harjala in Damascus countryside, at a cost of 1/2 billion, which includes drilling a well and implementing two water tanks with a total capacity of 2500 cubic meters.
Ali Ajeeb