{"id":15257,"date":"2025-07-07T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:46:58","slug":"a-training-course-on-water-scarcity-in-iraq-its-risks-and-how-to-deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/?p=15257&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A training course on water scarcity in Iraq, its risks, and how to deal with it."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Department of Soil and Water Technologies at Al-Mussaib Technical Institute \u2013 Middle Euphrates Technical University organized an awareness-raising training course on water scarcity in Iraq, its risks, and mechanisms for addressing them.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The course highlighted the major challenges facing the country in the water sector due to climate change, declining rainfall, declining river levels, and weak water resource management.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The course also addressed several topics, most notably: the environmental, economic, and social impacts of water scarcity and the importance of raising awareness about rationalizing consumption. It also discussed possible solutions, such as adopting modern irrigation technologies and enhancing regional cooperation on water issues.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The course was presented by Alaa Shalal, with the participation of several institute members.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"455\" data-id=\"15255\" src=\"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/33303.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/33303.jpg 856w, https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/33303-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/33303-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/33303-640x340.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Soil and Water Technologies at Al-Mussaib Technical Institute \u2013 Middle Euphrates Technical University organized an awareness-raising training course on water scarcity in Iraq, its risks, and mechanisms for addressing them.The course highlighted the major challenges facing the country in the water sector due to climate change, declining rainfall, declining river levels, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/?p=15257&#038;lang=en\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training-and-scientific-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ims.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}