The Ministry of Water Resources is a department of the

Syrian government Government of the Syrian Arab Republic is the union government created by the constitution of Syria where by the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Syr ...

. The current minister is

Tammam Raad Tammam Raad ( ar, تمام رعد) (born 1965) is a Syrian politician, the current Minister of Water Resources. Education and career * 2004-2005: Director of Homs branch to the Orontes basin, head of Planning and Studies * 2004-2011: Assistan ...

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 The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...

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, and 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.

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

References

{{Reflist Government ministries of Syria Ministries established in 2012 Irrigation ministries Water Organizations based in Damascus Politics of Syria All stub articles 2012 establishments in Syria

History

Directorates and bodies

List of Ministers

See also

References