Shafaq News/ Iraq's new Prime Minister Mohammad Shiya al-Sudani on Thursday headed a meeting to discuss a project to desalinate seawater in Basra.
The meeting, according to a readout issued by al-Sudani's bureau, was attended by the Basra governor, the planning ministry secretary, the director-general of the water department at the ministry of construction, and the prime ministers' advisors.
The readout said that the meeting discussed radical solutions for the water crisis in Basra and reviewed the measures taken by former administrations to address this issue.
After listening to the experts' opinions, al-Sudani called an emergency meeting next week to devise a plan for an integrated project that comprises power generation, seawater desalination, and water supply for oil facilities.
