Wednesday morning on 30/12/2020 in the department of geography and information system at the College of Arts, the thesis entitled "Efficiency of Handling the Service of Solid Domestic municipal Waste in Basrah City.

The thesis consisted of five chapters. The first dealt with the conceptual framework, sources of producing solid waste, and its historical role in Basrah. The second chapter explored the influential factors in managing the service of the human, natural, solid, domestic and municipal waste. In the third chapter, the spatial and temporal contrast was examined for the managing of the solid, domestic and municipal waste in Basrah. The fourth examined the material components for Basrah Municipal and the number of times in which waste was being collected and the ingredients of solid waste. The fifth chapter rounded up showing the efficiency of the service of the solid, domestic and municipal waste in Basrah.

This study aimed at the management of the service of the the solid, domestic and municipal waste in Basrah. It also meets the needs of the city for an academic practical study adopting the geographical dimension a means to evaluate the efficiency of managing the service of the solid, domestic and municipal waste in Basrah especially after the increase in its population, waste output, and the improvement in the living standards in the city.   It also studied the municipal waste generated in the city and its geographical distribution according to the people output of waste, quantity of lifted waste and its spatial and temporal contrast.

The study concluded that the effect of the human and natural conditions on the management of the kind of service directly and indirectly matches the waste quantity with the population of 1273623.