MoWR rejects reports over risk over expected collapse for Mosul Dam

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Ministry of Water Resources rejected “The reports over expected collapse for Mosul Dam during the next three months.” A statement by the ministry cited “These reports are completely untrue and groundless,” assuring that “The Dam is functioning well currently and the maintenance and rehabilitation works are still proceeding in this dam.” The USA had warned in 2006, 2007, from the risk of collapsing Mosul Dam, in Nineveh province that could expose the city , the second largest city in Iraq, which is inhabited by million and 700 000 individual, to a wave of water amounted to height of 20 meters. It is worth to be mentioned that Mosul Dam (450) KM to the north of Baghdad, was established by joint Germanic-Italian company on Tigris River, northwestern Mosul city, of height 113 meters. The Company estimated the age of this dam 80 years. It is the largest dam in Iraq and fourth largest dam in Middle East. The Deputy Prime Minster for Energy Affairs Hussein al-Shahristani announced that “A contract is about to be concluded with a foreign company to renovate Mosul Dam.”