FOB DELTA — Iraqis are cleaning the 250-kilometer Hahwar canal system to improve the distribution of water from the Tigris river to southwest Wasit province. The canal system provides water to 59,000 acres of crop land, roughly 10 percent of the arable land in Wasit, which is home to over 2,000 farmers. “It’s been almost two years since the canals were cleaned, and it was a government project,” said Ahmed Abed Alwaaly, the contractor in charge of the project. “This project is better.” The $378,000 canal cleaning project is funded by the Iraqi Commanders’ Emergency Response Program (ICERP) and was...