08 June، 2018
The water crisis is a pure political crisis and it could be the beginning of dividing Iraq”, the current water crisis is another kind of terrorism targeting the collective consciousness of the Iraqi society, as the scarcity of water and its dry future became the obsession of each Iraqi citizen. In addition, the social media has the negative effect on the crisis influence on the psychology of Iraqi audience. Also, some emphasized that the water crisis is a political one, and that it was planned since more than thirty years.

 

Others pointed out to the lack of international decisions that force Turkey to provide water to Iraq, especially that Turkey has been suffering from a crisis classified as an environmental or biological crisis. Also, the solution for the crisis is not technical, but rather political, and Israel has a big role in it. Therefore, its solution should be political as well.

 

Conclusions:

 

·         If the water crisis is political, this does not deny an Iraqi technical cause working to increase its sharpness and double its effects.

 

·         There is a weakness in the legal performance of the Iraqi government in using the international laws as a tool to force Turkey to provide enough water shares to Iraq.

 

·         There are a motivator driving the Iraqi audiences to drown in the media crises, whose social effects are possibly more dangerous than the water crisis.

 

·         Everybody seeks to eliminate the corruption and corrupted persons, claiming that they do not know its identity, although its fingerprints are everywhere and in every detail of the state’s work, among which is the water issue.

 

Conclusions:

 

·         One of the reasonable duties of the Iraqi government is to develop the infrastructures of the projects and dams enabling to perfectly exploit the water entering Iraq and prevent the waste that increases the shortage resulted from the origin country.

 

·         The Iraqi government, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, must submit the Iraqi-Turkish water issue to the Security Council and support it with the legal texts and the international treaties of the Riparian States and the international rivers.

 

·         The state must perform its role as a caretaker of citizens, and to be up to the responsibility to preserve security and prevent the prevalence of rumors that shake the psychological security of the citizen.

 

·         It is very urgent to open the corruption files regarding the products of water and dams, hold the defaulting persons accountable, and take corrective measures from planning and executive perspectives.

 

·         Iraqi must have a unified political position towards Turkey’s water policy, and use the economy as a weapon or a tool to put pressure on it and prevent encroaching upon Iraq’s share of water.

 

Names of some participating members during the week's dialogue:

 

(1)   Dr. Falah Shamsa

 

(2)   Mr. Ibrahim Al-Sumaidaee

 

(3)   Mr. Abd Awad

 

(4)   Mr. Abu Azzam Al-Tamimi

 

(5)   Dr. Basel Hussein

 

(6)   Mr. Riyad Al-Saedi

 

(7)   Dr. Rahim Al-Hasnawi

 

(8)   Dr. Abdul Hakim Khasro

 

(9)   Mr. Wadee Al-Hanzal

 

(10)  Mr. Moayad Al-Jabiri

 

(11)  Mr. Husam Al-Ghazali

 

(12)  Mr. Amer Al-Musawi

 

What is contained in this paper is a summary of the proposed opinions in the electronic groups of RCD.