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Kheyareyya farmers are crying out for help because of sewage
A large number of farmers in the villages of Kheyareyya, Albarmon Badri, and Mitt Mazzah, the town center of Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate, have submitted many complaints to the land center, screaming because of the lack of irrigation water to their lands, which are more than 300 acres.
The farmers, who possess the land of Al-Arba'een Al-Waty basin, which is located in the village of Khayareyya, with an area of 28 acres, which follows the public administration of eastern Dakahleyya irrigation department, said that the water doesn't reach the lands of this basin completely, a matter that forces farmers to irrigate their lands using the water of the cypress sewage canal; which is a pure draining water.
The draining water of four villages is poured into this canal, which would set aside the lands of farmers, causing them a loss of their full source of income. In addition, those farmers, and many other citizens, might be exposed to much serious health damages, resulting from eating food crops irrigated by sanitation water.
It is worth mentioning that the inhabitants of the aforementioned villages have filed several complaints to several different quarters, but these quarters did not take any action for helping them, for example:
Farmers have filed a complaint before the Department of Agriculture in Mansoura, on 1/4/2009, where this department carried out a preview on the village and addressed the general department of irrigation to solve the problem, but the department didn't take any action.
On 5/8/2009, farmers have filed a complaint before the governor of Dakahlia, who addressed the general department of irrigation to resolve the problem of lack of irrigation water, but no action was taken.
In addition, farmers provided a complaint no.4306, 7/10/2009, before Mr. Director of General department of Irrigation in Eastern Dakahlia, because he is the responsible and addressed person, according to article 24 of Law No. 12 of 1984, which is applied to the problem and its solution. In addition, the mentioned agricultural land is surrounded by 12 hosed, owned to other farmers, where the other farmers, who are prevented from the irrigation water, try to agree with the farmer; owners of these lands, to agree on delivering water from the land of the owners to the land of mentioned farmers.
The Center believes that the farmers have the right to irrigate their lands with clean and sufficient water, and that the Ministry of Irrigation is responsible for delivering water to these lands, where the ministry shall clean and purge the hosed that have been bridged; these hosed and canals were used by the farmers to irrigate their lands, but the hosed were bridged because it passes through Meet Mazzah. On the same time, there are many serious health damages, resulting from eating crops irrigated by sewage, which cause many serious diseases for the citizens, in addition to the destruction of agricultural land and setting it aside over time, and wasting our natural resources. In order to stop these damages, the various governmental bodies, such as irrigation, agriculture and localities, must take the necessary actions to clean irrigation canals, and deliver clean and adequate water to the lands of farmers. These bodies must be committed to implement the provisions of the Irrigation and Agriculture law, and they must punish the corrupt and negligent officials who demanded bribes from farmers, for clearing canal of Meet Mazzah.
The center calls upon the Minister of Agriculture, the Governor of Dakahlia, and Mr. Director of the general department of irrigation in Dakahlia, to quickly and effectively clean the irrigational sources of Arba'een Al-Waty basin, starting from the housing bulk in Meet Mazzah and ending with the basin, and to install switches on the bank of Cypress to deliver water to the lands of affected farmers, so they can irrigate their land with clean and sufficient water, in order to ensure their rights of safe possession of agricultural land and clean food production.
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