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Iraq Plans to Launch Satellite To Deal With Water Crisis

As part of efforts to monitor desertification and growing water shortages across the country, Iraq is working to build and launch a satellite before the end of the year, writes Omar al-Shaher.
IN SPACE - MARCH 31:  This portion of a NASA handout satellite image of Baghdad, Iraq shows black smoke emanating from "hot spots" circled in red March 31, 2003. According to NASA the black plumes of smoke and there associated thermal anomalies or "hot spots," indicate that they are possibly oil fires. (Photo by NASA/MODIS/Getty Images)
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Iraq is to launch a satellite at the end of this year as part of a scientific project dedicated to monitoring desertification and water shortages, whose repercussions have cast a shadow over the country for years.

Last Thursday [April 25], seven Iraqi ministries held a meeting to discuss procedures for launching and studying the economic feasibility of the project.

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