Rainwater drainage, sewage networks rehabilitated in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: Rehabilitation works have been completed on rainwater drainage and sewage networks in southern Basra city at a cost of over $750,000 U.S. dollars. “Worn-out pipes were replaced with new pipes in al-Faw district (100 km south of Basra city),” an official from Basra’s reconstruction unit, Ali Hanon, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The project was carried out as part of the 2008 provincial development projects and took six month to complete, he added. The Shiite province of Basra lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1