FLOOD CONTROL IN EUPHRATES
♦—— BRITISH FIRM SECURES BIG IRAQ CONTRACT (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRRLESB.) RUGBY, July 19. The British engineering firm of Balfour. Beatty and Company has secured a contract of £ 900,000 from th? Government of Iraq for the construction of works near Ramadi designed to arrest extensive flooding of the Euphrates and so convert thousands of acres of water-logged land into valuable agricultural areas. The scheme provides for diverting the flood waters at a point about 50 miles west of Bagdad and conveying them into Lake Habbaniyah. The work will occupy four years.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 11
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