He found that its water was salty and the people were complaining about it, so he wrote to the Caliph asking for permission to dig a tributary river for them from the Basra River (Shatt al-Arab), and he ordered the people to write letters and insist on the Caliph, so the Caliph agreed to dig it and ordered that enough money be spent to dig it, so Adi dug it from the side called Bathq Shirin (Arabic: بثق شيرين), and it became a large river, and they held a celebration on the day of its conquest, in which the people gathered and Hasan al-Basri attended, and it was called Nahr Adi (Arabic: نهر عدي, "Adi River").

[3] At that time, the Bani Haram Mosque was considered a scientific and literary center from which many writers and scholars graduated.

[7] In 1965, the Qarmat Ali Iron Bridge was built under the direction of President Abdul Salam Arif, and its design was prepared by Bulgarian company.

The most important of these water channels are: Shatt al-Arab Al-Saghir (Al-Duwagh), Al-Assafiya, Al-Debin, Al-Shikhatta, Al-Salmi, Al-Dawai, Al-Misrah, Al-Jaberi, Zaibag, Khor Tradd, Abu Sukheir, Khor Tuwaihir, Al-Musandag, Al-Dhatcher, Al-Tuwaiyl, Al-Bahrani, Muzan, Al-Sagrawi, Al-Ghaima, Ajaj, Abed-Ali, Al-Baiaha, Al-Abbasi, Al-Husseiniya, Al-Areedh, Hamasa and Al-Jairi.

Most of the townspeople have commercial stores and kiosks, and large number of residents work in government jobs and the rest in fishing.