President Saleh stresses need to build more dams

Saba
SANA’A, July 14 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh emphasized on Wednesday the necessity to build more dams and water barriers to preserve the rain floods and to feed the groundwater.During his visit to Bani Matar Waterfall Dam, President Saleh underlined the importance of rationalizing water usage in irrigation and using modern irrigation means. Saleh emphasized the significance of reducing the indiscriminate drilling of wells to avoid the depleting groundwater that would impact negatively on the agricultural development.On his way to the dam, the President has inspected some of waterfalls and the volume of floods in some districts of Sana’a governorate resulted from the rains fallen on the country in the few last days.AF/AF