Ministry of Water Resources (Syria)
| وزارة الموارد المائية | |
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| Formed | 2012 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Syria |
| Headquarters | Damascus |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | www |
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The Ministry of Water Resources (Arabic: وزارة الموارد المائية) is a department of the Syrian government. The current minister is Moataz Qattan.[1]
History
[edit]The Ministry of Irrigation was created by Law No. 16 of 1982 as a process of compiling the tasks that were distributed to a number of public agencies (the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources - the Ministry of the Euphrates Dam) and then attached to them.
The quality institutions in the Euphrates basin that were created after the completion of the dam, which is the Public Institution for Land Reclamation and The General Authority for Investment and Development of the Euphrates Basin, as attached to it by the General Corporation for the Euphrates Dam, the General Company for Water Projects and the General Company for Water Studies were attached to the ministry.
In 2005, with the aim of developing the planning process for the water sector in Syria, it created the “General Authority for Water Resources to replace the general irrigation directorates.” In 2012, the Ministry of Water Resources was created to replace the Ministry of Irrigation, and drinking water institutions and sewage companies in the governorates were linked to it.[2]
Directorates and bodies
[edit]- Directorate of Systems and Technology
- Directorate of Human Resources
- Directorate of Irrigation and Drainage
- Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation
- Directorate of Legal Affairs
- Drinking Water Directorate
- Administrative Development Directorate
- Directorate of Equipment and Energy Rationalization
- Sanitation Directorate
- Directorate of International Waters and Dams
List of ministers
[edit]| Minister | Government | Term | |||
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| Minister of Water Resources | |||||
| Bassam Hanna | Riyad Hijab government First Wael al-Halqi government |
2012 to 2014 | |||
| Kamal Sheikha | Second Wael al-Halqi government | 2014 to 2016 | |||
| Nabil Al-Hassan | Imad Khamis government | 2016 to 2018 | |||
| Hussein Arnous | Imad Khamis government | 2018 to 2020 | |||
| Tammam Raad | First Hussein Arnous government Second Hussein Arnous government |
2020 to 2023 | |||
| Hussein Makhlouf[3] | Second Hussein Arnous government | 2023 to 2024 | |||
| Moataz Qattan | Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali government | 2024 to present | |||
See also
[edit]- Water supply and sanitation in Syria
- Water resources management in Syria
- Water management in Greater Damascus
References
[edit]- ^ "The Syrian Ministry of Water Resources and ACSAD cooperation". Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Drylands. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Syria's Assad removes prime minister as economic hardship grows". Reuters. 2020-06-11. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "President al-Assad issues a decree appointing two ministers". SANA. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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