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New power plant for Sulaimaniyah, water
plant for Duhok
8.5.2006
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Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq, - A small-sized
power plant has been executed in the Kurdish city of
Sulaimaniyah with 16-megawatt capacity.
The plant provides electricity for at least 5,000
households in a city of nearly 800,000 inhabitants.
Sulaimaniyah is the capital of a province of the
same name. It is administered by the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan, a Kurdish faction led by Jalal
Talabani, currently the President of Iraq.
The $3.4 million project is one of several
electrical plants the Kurds are erecting in their
areas to ease power shortages.
Electricity is one of Iraq’s major problems and
outages in big cities may last up to 20 hours a day.
Households now mainly rely on diesel-run generators
which are only sufficient to power low-voltage bulbs
and appliances.
Despite larges-scale investments estimated at
hundreds of millions of dollars since the 2003 U.S.
liberation, power generation capacity is still less
than under the sanctions-hit former regime.
Meanwhile a village in Kurdistan (northern Iraqi)
province of Dahuk has finally got clean potable
water thanks to space age technology.
A U.S. non-governmental children organisation and
U.S. soldiers have tested a mobile water plant that
bears similarities with the one aboard U.S. space
shuttles, a U.S. army statement quoted NGO worker
John Anderson as saying on Sunday.
Previously, the only source of water for residents
of Bandawi village was a small canal that goes
through the village with water carrying dirt,
fertilizers and chemicals, the statement added,
describing the canal water as unfit for human
consumption.
The unit cost less than $10,000 as a short-term
solution for the water problem in the village.
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