Samawah/Iraq my hometown sustainability
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Transcript of Samawah/Iraq my hometown sustainability
Home Town Sustainability
Name : Maladh Talib Hasan
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AL- SAMAWAH CITY /IRAQ
Introduction
• AL Samawah is a city in Iraq, 280 kilometres (174 mi) southeast of Baghdad. The city of Samawah is the modern capital of the Al Muthanna Governorate. The city is located midway between Baghdad and Basra, at the northern edge of the governorate. The province was established in 1975 .
The city is built on both sides of the Euphrates river; there are four bridges in the centre of town for crossing between the two sides. The west bank of the city contains the commercial heart of the city, and includes the old town .The west bank is the site of the covered market Suq Al Masgoof, which dates to the Ottoman period. The area surrounding the market is the old city with its Byzantine maze of crowded markets and streets.
• The most famous attraction of Samawah is the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk which dates to 4000 BC. This was the largest city in Sumer, extending over 2 km². Uruk was not only the largest city of the first urban civilisation on earth, but it is also the place where the first written script was discovered, the oldest dating back to 3300 BC.
POPULATION GROWTH Value & Rank:The Population Growth of Iraq is 2.23 (%) with a global rank of 39.My home town population growth rate decrease because of the wars and unsafe situation in IRAQ.
POPULATION GROWTH The Population Growth of Iraq is similar to that of Sierra Leone, Eritrea,
Afghanistan, Mauritania, The Gambia, Djibouti, Ghana, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Kenya with a respective Population Growth of 2.33, 2.30, 2.29, 2.26, 2.23, 2.23, 2.19, 2.14, 2.13, 2.11 (%) and a global rank of 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
Air quality
• In samawah we suffer from electricity lack so people started to buy their own generators to generate the electricity Beside that the great number of old cars and The southern cement factory in central Samawah.
Biodiversity
• samawah have a nice biodiversity because it's contain Palm groves Euphrates river beside that contain a lot of birds kinds and Livestock .
Waste and recycling
• There is a small percentage of recycle not over that 5%, for metal things And plastic materials but Works are underway to build a waste-recycling plant, The project stands over an area of 30 donums [7.5 hectares] and should be finalized in 4 months . , will treat different types of waste, namely those from residential and trade areas, the state departments, hospitals and industrial organizations.
Transport
• Samawah is served by a highway for road traffic from Baghdad and Basra. The railway station has passenger services from both Baghdad and Basra and is the cheapest form of transport. The railway station is located approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) to the west of central Samawah. Finally The transportation in my country is not good and need to improvement.
Education
• samawah have 72 secondary schools, five vocational schools (commercial and industrial), and three teacher training institutes. Al Muthanna University is an Iraqi university located in Samawah, It was established in 2007 have many departments such as medicine , law ,engineering and a lot of departments.
Health and healthcare
• the healthcare degree in samawah is not bad but need to more improvement with modern devices. we have two hospitals in samawah and Works are underway to build a new one with a capacity of 400 beds ,a small clinics in every area in samawah that makes the people feel comfort to reach medical center and have their medical treatment.
Health and healthcare
Samawah General Hospital
Hospital under construction
Green space
• Samawah is built on both sides of the Euphrates and is surrounded by hundreds of palm groves that give it a tropical feel, especially in the southern and northern suburbs. These groves provide cool respite from the scorching heat of Mesopotamia.
Climate change
• Samawah has a hot desert climate like the rest of the surrounding region. During the summer months, from June to August, samawah is consistently can be considered as basra one of the hottest cities on the planet, regularly exceeding 45 °C (113 °F) and may approach 50 °C (122 °F)during July. During the winter samawah experiences mild weather with average high temperatures around 20 °C (68 °F). In few winter nights, minimum temperature lows below 0 °C (32 °F).
Food
• samawah have a big variation in food types, such as dates, barley, citrus fruits, various kinds of plants fruit , vegetables. In addition, Samawah is home to the small and rare trade in wild truffles, which grow in the desert regions of Muthanna province .In addition to the production of various types of fish and sheep . Also samawa have over 140 poultry farms .
Economic base
• Samawah has the largest cement factories in the Middle East during the 1970s , with a total production capacity of 2.85 million tonnes a year . , although the southern cement factory ,the oldest, reopened in 2005 . As of 2007 , the four existing plants are producing a total of just 0.8 million tonnes a year due to the shortage of electricity . Five new cement factories with a capacity of 9 million tonnes a year are under construction on the outskirts of Samawah and will provide employment for several thousand skilled and unskilled workers as well as filling 45% of Iraq's total cement needs.
Economic base
• A small oil refinery was reopened in Samawah in 2005 after being idle for 15 years. The existing 10,000 bbl/d facility's capacity was doubled to 20,000 bbl/d (3,200 m3/d) in 2006 and was to have increased to 30,000 bbl/d (4,800 m3/d) by 2007. The facility is linked by pipeline to the new Kifl oil field in Samawah province that has an initial capacity of 40,000 bbl/d (6,400 m3/d). The major advantage of the refinery is that it is designed for processing heavy crude oil, allowing the light crude to be exported
Employment
• The types of jobs in my hometown divided into three types: first one is work with government most of people work in this field and the second type is private companies and in this type of work the people who have a good experience work. So there is a competitive between private companies and government ministries and its provide a large number of job vacancies in my home town. The third type is the field of agriculture.
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2.Air quality 3.Waste and recycling 4.Transport5.Education6.Health and healthcare 7.Green space 8.Climate change 9.Food10.Economic base11.Employment12.Biodiversity1.Population growth