The Turkish occupation continues to seize a Syrian share of the Euphrates water, and large areas of agricultural land in Al-Hasakah are out of investment

Al-Hasakah-Sana

The Turkish regime continues its crimes by robbing large quantities of the Euphrates water and preventing it from flowing towards Syria in order to deprive it of its share of the river’s water, which caused the drought of the Khabur River and its tributaries, which was directly reflected in the agricultural and service reality and reduced many agricultural areas.

The Director of Water Resources in Al-Hasakah, Eng. Abdul Aziz Amin, confirmed in a statement to SANA's correspondent that “the Turkish regime's breach of the agreement signed with Syria regarding the distribution of water shares in the Euphrates River, and it was seized with large quantities of water to be invested in the Turkish interior, which led to the drying up of the Khabur River and its tributaries,” indicating that “the Khabur tributaries” It is currently completely dry, while the normal flow during this period of the year is estimated between 5 and 8 cubic meters per second.

The agreement signed with the Turkish side in 1987 stipulates that the water supply in the Euphrates River from Turkey to Syria should not be less than 500 cubic meters per second to operate the electricity turbines in the Euphrates Dam.

For his part, the Director of Agriculture in Al-Hasakah, Engineer Rajab Salama, pointed out that "large areas of agricultural land have left investment as a result of the suspension of irrigation projects on the bed of the Khabur River from the city of Ras al-Ain to the Markada district."

Salameh pointed out that "the robbery of the Turkish regime on large quantities of water from the Euphrates River coincided with the Turkish occupation mercenaries' seizure of large areas of agricultural land in the Ras Al-Ain region, which is classified within the agricultural stability areas with high productivity."

In turn, the director of the General Electricity Company of Hasaka, Eng. Anwar Okla, confirmed that the province of Hasaka “has no electricity for the fifth day in a row because it depends mainly on the quantities of energy received through the 230 kV voltage line connecting the Tabqa and al-Bawab stations, where the generation stops in the Euphrates Dam were stopped due to the imprisonment of the regime. Al-Turki has made large quantities of river water and an unprecedented low water level.

Okla pointed out that the company is currently feeding the service lines that are excluded in the governorate, which are "water, hospitals, furnaces and mills" from the quantities produced at the Sweidiyah generation facility.

In his turn, expert in water resources Aziz Mikhail, and in a similar statement pointed out that “the goal of confining water and preventing its entry into the Syrian lands comes within the Turkish regime’s plan to implement the so-called Cape Project, which includes thousands of hectares extending from the state of Urfa to the lands opposite to the city of Malikiyah in the far northeast of Hasakah. These measures led to the stopping of the flow of the Al-Jarjab, Al-Zarkan and Tal Halaf rivers, which are main tributaries of the Khabur River, which has almost completely dried up.

The water aggression committed by the Turkish regime comes in the context of its continuous attacks on the Syrians, as its terrorists spread in many villages and towns near the border strip and robbed the residents' properties and their agricultural crops in addition to the fact that they prevented drinking water from the people of Hasakah province repeatedly by stopping the pumping of water from the Alouk station. .