PM opens 8 water desalination stations in Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki inaugurated eight water desalination stations in southern Basra on Saturday, a local source said. “Prime Minister Maliki inaugurated the stations in the districts of al-Faw and Saihan in the presence of the minister of municipalities and the governor of Basra,” an information source in the province told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Each of those stations – four in Faw and four in Saihan, 100 km in southern Basra – has a capacity of 100 cubic meters per hour,” the source added. He said that the station took six months to finalize by a local company. The oil-rich port city of Basra lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 2