Ministry of Water Resources (Syria)

Ministry of Water Resourcesوزارة الموارد المائية

Agency overview
Formed| 2012
Preceding agency|

* Ministry of Irrigation

Jurisdiction| Government of Syria
Headquarters| Damascus
Minister responsible|

* Hussein Makhlouf[1]

Website| www.moi.gov.sy

The Ministry of Water Resources (Arabic: وزارة الموارد المائية) is a department of the Syrian government. The current minister is Hussein Makhlouf.[2]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Directorates and bodies
* 3 List of ministers
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## History

The Ministry of Irrigation was created by Law No. 16 of 1982 as a process of compiling the tasks that were distributed to a number of public agencies (the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources - the Ministry of the Euphrates Dam) and then attached to them.

The quality institutions in the Euphrates basin that were created after the completion of the dam, which is the Public Institution for Land Reclamation and The General Authority for Investment and Development of the Euphrates Basin, as attached to it by the General Corporation for the Euphrates Dam, the General Company for Water Projects and the General Company for Water Studies were attached to the ministry.

In 2005, with the aim of developing the planning process for the water sector in Syria, it created the “General Authority for Water Resources to replace the general irrigation directorates.” In 2012, the Ministry of Water Resources was created to replace the Ministry of Irrigation, and drinking water institutions and sewage companies in the governorates were linked to it.[3]

## Directorates and bodies

* Directorate of Systems and Technology
* Directorate of Human Resources
* Directorate of Irrigation and Drainage
* Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation
* Directorate of Legal Affairs
* Drinking Water Directorate
* Administrative Development Directorate
* Directorate of Equipment and Energy Rationalization
* Sanitation Directorate
* Directorate of International Waters and Dams

## List of ministers

Minister  | Government  | Term

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Minister of Water Resources
Bassam Hanna  | Riyad Hijab government
First Wael al-Halqi government  | 2012 to 2014
Kamal Sheikha  | Second Wael al-Halqi government  | 2014 to 2016
Nabil Al-Hassan  | Imad Khamis government  | 2016 to 2018
Hussein Arnous  | Imad Khamis government  | 2018 to 2020
Tammam Raad  | First Hussein Arnous government
Second Hussein Arnous government  | 2020 to 2023
Hussein Makhlouf  | Second Hussein Arnous government  | 2023 to present

## See also

* Water supply and sanitation in Syria
* Water resources management in Syria
* Water management in Greater Damascus

## References

1. ↑ "President al-Assad issues a decree appointing two ministers". SANA. 13 December 2023. https://sana.sy/en/?p=321881.
2. ↑ "The Syrian Ministry of Water Resources and ACSAD cooperation". https://acsad.org/en/وزارة-الموارد-المائية-السورية-وأكساد/.
3. ↑ "Syria's Assad removes prime minister as economic hardship grows" (in en). Reuters. 2020-06-11. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-assad-government-idUSKBN23I228.

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