Iraq, Egypt discuss irrigation cooperation

Iraqi Water Resources Minister Hassan Janabi discussed on Thursday with Egyptian Ambassador here Ahmed Darwish ways of enhancing cooperation in the irrigation domain.

The diplomat told MENA that talks tackled enhancing cooperation in the water resources domain as well as benefiting from Egypt's experiment in fighting water hyacinth, a free-floating, fast-growing water plant that consumes large amount of Nile water.

Water hyacinths can diminish fish reservoirs and choke large swathes of the Nile’s lakes and waterways, becoming an ecological plague and destroying natural habitat and plant species native to the Nile.

Source: MENA