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Cooperation
Iraq is not a Party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [as of May 1998].
Iraq is not a Party to the the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985), the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987), the London Amendment to the Montreal Protocol (1990), or the Copenhagen Amendment to the Montreal Protocol (1992) [as of May 1998].
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Cooperation
Iraq is not a Party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. [as of May 1998]
Iraq is not a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity. [as of May 1998]
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Cooperation
Iraq is not a Party to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification [as of May 1998].
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Decision-Making: Coordinating Mechanisms
The Ministry of Irrigation is responsible for coordinating water resource management and development. Irrigation Directorates related to the Ministry undertake management and development at the state or district level.
Decision-Making: Legislation and Regulations
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Decision-Making: Strategies, Policies, and Plans
Pricing policies exist for agricultural use in order to manage water distribution and reduce waste. For household use, the policy is to charge less than the actual cost of water treatment.
The Government has set a target of 100 percent coverage of water supply by the year 2000, and 50 percent sanitation coverage by the same date.
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Status
Iraq follows both its own and international standards to measure water quality, including contamination of water by Persistent Organic Pollutants. Iraq has the capacity to treat 4,715,000 P.e. waste water, but it does not have the capacity to recycle it.
Challenges
The Government regularly protects the water supply, including in rivers, lakes and dams, from pollution and contamination. A major constraint, however, is the difficulty in controlling pollution of freshwater coming from neighboring countries.
Capacity-building, Education, Training and Awareness-raising
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Information
Information on the use of water by agricultural, household and industrial sectors is the work of the Central Statistical Organizations within the Planning Commission. Information is distributed through the Agricultural Planning Directorate, the Construction, Housing and Services Planning Directorate, and the Industrial Planning Directorate.
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Cooperation
Iraq shares an agreement with Syria and Turkey over the use of international watercourses.
Iraq is not a party to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands [as of May 1998].
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This information was provided by the Government of Iraq to the sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Last Update: April 1998.
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Cooperation
Iraq ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on 30 July 1985.
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Solid Waste and Sanitation
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Hazardous Wastes
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Cooperation
Iraq signed the Basel Convention on the Control of Tranboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal but has not yet ratified it. [as of May 1998]
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Radioactive Wastes
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