North Iraq’s Mosul Dam’s stoppage affects electric power – agriculture:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: North Iraq Mosul Dam’s main electric power station had stopped due to the decrease of water level in the dam’s lake, an official of the main power station said on Saturday. “The main power stations in north Mosul‘s Dam have been halted since Dec. 27th last, due to the lower level of its lake, thing that decreased the water in the dam, along with the decrease of the water coming from Turkey,” the official told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said the stoppage had “affected the electric power in the dam that had reached 750 migawatts in the past,” adding that the electric power station had halted completely, affecting irrigation and agriculture in the area. Mosul dam is 50 kms to the north of Mosul, built on Tirgris River in 1983, considered the largest dam in Irraq and the fourth largest dam in the Middle East. The source said that the Dam’s current water level “have decreased to one-tenth of the previous water level that had decreased to 100 cubic metres from 1,000 cubic metres in the past years.” Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the noorth of Baghdad. PT / SKH 964