Wed, Sep 18, 2013
by Mahmoud Habboush
Iraq’s municipal affairs minister announced that the country will spend billions of dollars over the next two to three years on 50 water and sewage projects that would be open to work by foreign contractors. The Iraqi government is taking steps, including facilitating the issue of visas to businessmen, to encourage foreign contractors to set up shop Iraq.
The Municipalities and Public Works Minister Adil Mhoder said that the new projects were related to building sewage infrastructure and securing portable water from the Tigris-Euphrates river system. "We will ask companies to bid for them in 2014," Mhoder said. "By the end of 2013, these projects will have passed the planning phase and will be needing implementation."
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