Over the past two decades the water and sanitation sector in Iraq experienced a steady but devastating decline.

Various factors, including sanctions, wars, aging Infrastructure, continuous electrical power cuts, led to a decrease in potable water supply.

In November 2005 UNDP initiated a project to restore the Karama Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and increase production, thus restoring safe potable water supply to an approximately one million inhabitants of the Karkh area of Baghdad, specifically Kadhimiya and a few quarters in Rasafa.  

The full rehabilitation of Al Karama WTP line I and the partial rehabilitation of lines II and III have increased quantity of water supplied from 25 Million Gallons per Day (MGD) to 35 (MGD) thus increasing the production capacity for 40%.

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