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In Iraq’s Summer, Kurdistan’s Erbil Thirsts For Water
August 14th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, an article on Erbil’s water crisis: The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, 80-year-old Babir hasn’t bathed in weeks and impatiently waits for trucked-in water deliveries.“There is nothing worse than not having water,” said Babir, who gave only his first […]
Read more »Turkey’s President’s Erdogan in Rare Iraq Visit to Discuss Water, Oil, Security
April 25th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, a report on Turkey’s President’s Erdogan rare visit to Iraq to discuss water, oil, and security: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Monday in neighbouring Iraq for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security issues expected to top the agenda. Erdogan was greeted with a 21-gun salute […]
Read more »Iraq’s Water Crisis Impact Agriculture
March 31st, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on Iraq’s water crisis: Faced with a failing date palm business due to scarce resources, Iraqi farmer Ismail Ibrahim has planted “sidr”, or jujube, trees which require far less water during an irrigation crisis. Iraq is part of the “Fertile Crescent”, arable land sweeping from the Mediterranean to the Gulf which […]
Read more »Sprinklers and Drip Irrigation Help Iraqis Beat Drought
March 25th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, an article on Iraq’s drought: After four years of drought, Iraqi farmer Mohammed Sami was about to abandon his father’s parched land, but then a water-saving irrigation system revived his crops and his hopes. He is among hundreds of farmers in the country battered by heatwaves, scarce rain and depleted rivers to […]
Read more »Rampant Water Pollution Threatens Iraq’s Shrinking Rivers
February 23rd, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on how ampant water pollution is threatening Iraq’s shrinking rivers: Stricken by drought and depleted by upstream dams, Iraq’s once mighty rivers the Tigris and Euphrates are suffocating under pollutants from sewage to medical waste. In a country where half the population lacks access to safe drinking water, according to […]
Read more »Price of Oil: Iraq’s Drought Exacerbated by Oil Industry’s Thirst for Water
February 17th, 2024
Via OneWater, a sobering photographic look at how Iraq’s drought has been exacerbated by its oil industry’s thirst for water: Nahr Bin Umar, Iraq. A group of fishermen from Qarmat Ali collect the nets early in the mornings on the Shatt al-Arab river. They fish in this area every day and sell the fish for […]
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