| Ministry of Water Resources | |
| Native Name A: | وزارة الموارد المائية |
| Formed: | 2012 |
| Preceding1: | Ministry of Irrigation |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Syria |
| Headquarters: | Damascus |
| Minister1 Name: | Hussein Makhlouf[1] |
The Ministry of Water Resources (Arabic: وزارة الموارد المائية) is a department of the Syrian government. The current minister is Hussein Makhlouf.[2]
The Ministry of Irrigation was created by Law No. 16 of 1982 as a process of compiling the tasks that were distributed to a number of public agencies (the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources - the Ministry of the Euphrates Dam) and then attached to them.
The quality institutions in the Euphrates basin that were created after the completion of the dam, which is the Public Institution for Land Reclamation and The General Authority for Investment and Development of the Euphrates Basin, as attached to it by the General Corporation for the Euphrates Dam, the General Company for Water Projects and the General Company for Water Studies were attached to the ministry.
In 2005, with the aim of developing the planning process for the water sector in Syria, it created the “General Authority for Water Resources to replace the general irrigation directorates.” In 2012, the Ministry of Water Resources was created to replace the Ministry of Irrigation, and drinking water institutions and sewage companies in the governorates were linked to it.[3]
| Minister of Water Resources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bassam Hanna | Riyad Hijab government First Wael al-Halqi government | 2012 to 2014 | |||
| Kamal Sheikha | Second Wael al-Halqi government | 2014 to 2016 | |||
| Nabil Al-Hassan | Imad Khamis government | 2016 to 2018 | |||
| Hussein Arnous | Imad Khamis government | 2018 to 2020 | |||
| Tammam Raad | First Hussein Arnous government Second Hussein Arnous government | 2020 to 2023 | |||
| Hussein Makhlouf | Second Hussein Arnous government | 2023 to present | |||