Baghdad, Iraq -- Iraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks. Water is a major issue in the country of 46 million people undergoing a serious environmental crisis...
Water loss, river pollution threaten Syrian fishermen’s livelihood
The battered country, where half a million died in the conflict, has also suffered the impacts of climate change, from searing summer heat to prolonged drought. The flow of the Euphrates -- one of the region's mighty streams, where the world's earliest civilizations flourished -- has been further impacted by...Iraqis rally in heat against water, electricity crisis
Designated by the UN as one of the five countries in the world most touched by some effects of climate change, Iraq is experiencing its fourth consecutive summer of drought.
Iraq PM to hold talks with Turkey on water, Kurd rebels
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani will visit Turkey on Tuesday for talks including on scarce water resources and the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a government source said. Sudani is set to meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his first visit to Iraq's northern neighbor since...Iraq’s Tigris, Euphrates rivers plummet as water crisis looms
NASIRIYAH, IRAQ - Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages. In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed...
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up
The Tigris, the lifeline connecting the storied cities of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, has been choked by dams, most of them upstream in Turkey, and decreasing rainfall.
Staring at drought next year, Iraq digs more than 500 wells in 2022
Al-Mishkhab, Iraq - Iraq has long drilled the desert for oil, but now climate stress, drought and reduced river flows are forcing it to dig ever deeper for a more precious resource: water. The war-scarred nation and major crude exporter is one of the world's five countries most impacted by key...60% houses in Iraq lose access to drinking water, says survey
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday. Iraq has been battered by three years of drought, low rainfall and reduced...Iraq drought displaces 1,200 families in parched south
The Mesopotamian Marshes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been battered by low rainfall and reduced flows in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to dams built upstream in Turkey and Iran. Oil-rich Iraq, battered by decades of war, is also the world's fifth-most vulnerable country to some key effects...Parched Iraq’s water resources ‘down 50 percent’
Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable to climate change and desertification.Iraqi fishermen caught in net of water frontiers
Iraqi fishermen at Al-Faw, such as Tareq Ziad, complain of "being harassed" by both Iran and Kuwait.
Iraq fishermen in fear of arrest from Iran and Kuwait
Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.Drying Euphrates threatens disaster in Syria
Reputed to have once flown through the biblical Garden of Eden, the Euphrates runs for almost 2,800 km (1,700 miles) across Turkey, Syria and Iraq, irrigating swathes of land in Syria's breadbasket, and runs through three hydroelectric dams. But over the past eight months the river has contracted to a...
Climate crisis the next great threat for Iraq
Only 3.5 percent of Iraq’s farmlands are watered with irrigation systems and rivers are polluted with viruses and bacteria, oil spills and industrial chemicals.
