BAGHDAD, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — Prime Minister of Iraq Adel Abdul Mahdi on Sunday said that solving river water pollution issue is a priority for the new government, calling on exploiting rainfall water to increase reserves.
"Solving water pollution issue resembles a priority to the new government since its formation,"a statement from Abdul Mahdi’s media office quoted him as saying.
"We have taken correct and reassuring steps regarding the issue, in addition to implementing plans to limit water contamination and guaranteeing the optimal utilization of water resources," he added.
Last year, thousands of people were hospitalized due to water contamination in Iraq’s oil-rich southern province of Basra, some 550 km south the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as poisonous undrinkable drinking water caused several illnesses and fueled raging protests in the province.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — The United States space agency NASA’s lunar orbiter has observed the landing site of China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe for the second time and in a higher definition.
NASA announced Friday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) acquired a new shot on Chang’e-4 landing site the day after it did so on Jan. 30.
This time, LRO, a NASA spacecraft orbiting the Moon, moved closer to the floor of Von Karman crater and tilted to capture the Yutu-2 rover in two pixels just north of the lander, according to NASA.
The rover was not discernible and the Chang’e-4 lander was only a few pixels across in its first shot.
Chang’e-4 probe comprises a lander and a rover, and the rover is smaller than the lander.
In the picture released by LRO’s scientific team from Arizona University on Friday, Chang’e-4 lander and rover nestled among craters on the floor of Von Karman crater.