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Home Town Sustainability
Name : Maladh Talib Hasan
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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.

Samawah/Iraq my hometown sustainability

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.

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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Spider chart for samawa
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2.Air quality
3.Waste and recycling
4.Transport
5.Education
6.Health and healthcare
7.Green space
8.Climate change
9.Food
10.Economic base
11.Employment
12.Biodiversity
1.Population growth

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