التحليل الجغرافي للعوامل الاقتصادية المؤثرة في توطين صناعة وتعبئة المياه في محافظة كركوك

Abstract

      Kirkuk Governorate has witnessed during the current decade a remarkable development in the number of industrial establishments, especially industries of a daily consumer nature that the population needs continuously, including bottled water. Therefore, this study came to shed light on understand and examine the numbers of these industrial establishments and their relationship to the size of the population and their needs from them. In order to achieve these goals, the researcher followed three basic steps represented by the desk inventory to obtain sources that enhance the research, field work by visiting water bottling plants in various parts of the governorate, and then using the quantitative approach to determine the efficiency of these industries, their distribution patterns and concentration trends. The results of the study showed an increase in the number of water bottling industry facilities after the year (2003) due to the economic openness that Iraq witnessed in general and Kirkuk Governorate in particular, which amounted to (12) factories in the study area with a number of workers amounting to (1866) workers. Most of these establishments are large in size and all of them are affiliated with the private sector with the exception of two factories (Kirkuk Factory and Al-Tamim Factory). Also, most of the raw materials entering into this industry are imported from Turkey, Jordan, Iran and China.