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Water problems in Dukan Dam
Saman Yasin Awrahman, Hallat Rasheed Abdullah
Dukan Dam is located in the northeastern Kurdistan Region, 65 km northwest of the Sulaimani province center. It is divided into districts (Dukan, Pishdar, Ranya). In terms of Astronomical site, it is located between the two circles of latitude (36° 14' 00'') and (35° 57' 00'') north and the two longitudes (44° 04' 00'') and (44° 45' 00'') in the east. To the east is Mount Sara in the Charmawan mountain range, in the north, the Assos Mountain Range, and Mount Kosrat is located in the south. Ranya city is located in the east. The towns of (Qaladze, Sangasar and Zharawa) are located in the eastern and northeastern parts of the lake. Its highest point is 516 meters above sea level. The area of the dam is (270km2). It is the largest dam in the Kurdistan Region in terms of area and volume. It has a capacity of 7 billion cubic meters of water, of which 0.7 billion cubic meters are dead. The average rainfall was 594.6 mm. The average annual temperature is 21°C, and the yearly range is 34.7°C. Environmental pollution caused by humans on Dukan Dam is high, due to the mixing of sewage water from cities and towns that fall into the watershed of Dukan Dam as well as natural factors such as the rock composition of the area and floods. In this research, we emphasize the environmental issues of Dukan Dam, which are related to the natural and human problems that have been created for the dam or the dam has created for the place where it is built, in terms of water, floods, evaporation and other types of climate components, such as water, organisms, floods, evaporation and other types of weather, in terms of quantity and quality, water pollution is obvious in the dam and has damaged water and fish resources.
Volume 7 · Issue 1 · January 2020Economic Evaluation of Smaguli dam under the light of Geographic Factors
Aso Swar Namiq, Karwan Sabah Hewrami
Dam especially small dams have enormous impact on socio-economic aspects. Kurdistan region of Iraq has a plan to construct many dams for socio-economic purposes. There are different ideas about the impact of small dams; this work takes Smaquli Dam as an example to evaluate changes after completion of the dam in the Smaquli Village. In this paper, questioner and interview with compression and analyzing methods were used to obtain clear vision about the study area. The main question in this paper is that, what are the main Economic-Geographic changes in the study area after completion of the dam? The paper gives information about, the study area, and the main changes that existed after construction of the dam. The paper has found that, because of the dam the area has enough amount of water to produce 1,134 Ton of Corn (Maize), the population size in this area increased by 14%, tourism sector flourished by more than 17000%, the price of land rose by 200%