The workshop aimed to identify the problems and negative practices of the water environment in the city of Basra that led to the pollution of its waters. In addition, the workshop aimed to identify the most important sources of river water pollution represented by sewage and solid waste, as well as testing the water quality of these rivers. According to the permissible environmental standards and limitations.
The two teaching workshop in the department (Professor Iman Karim Abbas, and M.D. Bodour Fadel Rakab) gave lectures.
The content of the two lectures in the workshop was to shed light on the most important sources of pollution of the internal rivers of Basra city, represented by the dumping of large quantities of untreated sewage into the aquatic environment, in addition to the solid waste resulting from the wrong practices of the population and its impact on water pollution. The study on the type of sex of the lands adjacent to the banks of these rivers and its role in increasing the problem of water pollution from these sources. The standards of water quality in rivers and their suitability for various purposes show that they are polluted water and do not conform to what is correct and required.
The workshop made several recommendations, including:
1- Forming a main committee concerned with water pollution in Basra governorate, from which sub-committees in the district councils will be launched and activating their role by giving them the necessary powers to hold violators accountable in coordination with the health control and environmental protection committees.
2- That the Directorate of Environment in Basra, in cooperation with the Directorate of Sewage, establish an advanced monitoring system to measure the concentrations of water pollutants and link it to fixed and mobile monitoring stations distributed in several areas to monitor water pollution.
3- Expanding the participation of civil society institutions along with the family and the school to play an appropriate role in supervising and implementing activities and programs to develop environmental awareness among individuals and institutions of the importance of the aquatic environment and its protection from pollution.
4- Enacting deterrent laws and legislation against violators of sewage networks, and imposing fines on industrial workshop owners and violating residents by throwing their industrial and household waste directly into rivers.
5- Paying attention to the service aspect of the Basra municipality in raising solid waste regularly and periodically by increasing the number of mechanisms and containers inside residential areas, markets and public places, and avoiding placing them near rivers.
