A FARMER’S DREAM Turkey has been harnessing the river basin with a massive project to boost agriculture and generate hydroelectricity. Under its Southeast Anatolia Project, or GAP by its Turkish ...

A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces. Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country in the world to climate change. In 2021, almost 40 percent of wheat farmers in ...

The 754,000-square-kilometer (291,000-square-mile) Tigris-Euphrates River Basin jumped out as a hot spot when researchers from UC Irvine, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Center ...

The water stopped coming a year ago, the 95-year-old said. The starkly different realities are playing out along the length of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, one of the world’s most vulnerable.

Under a 1986 deal with Turkey, Ankara agreed to allow 500 cubic metres of water per second to enter Iraq from the Tigris and a similar amount to enter the Euphrates shared by Iraq and Syria.

It wasn't until Mosul, a city carved in two by the river, that we were finally able to travel more freely. When ISIS occupied Mosul from 2014-2017, it forbade residents from using the Tigris and Mosul ...

They are crossing bridges in convoys of Humvees, guarding riverbanks in M-1 Abrams tanks, flying in Apache helicopter formations up and down the Tigris River to neutralize terrorist operations ...

Turkey approaches the water issue as if it were the river basin’s benevolent owner, assessing needs and deciding how much to let flow downstream. Iraq considers ownership shared and wants a more ...

The Tigris-Euphrates river flows have fallen by 40% the past four decades as the states along its length - Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq pursue rapid, unilateral development of the waters' use.

The Tigris-Euphrates river flows have fallen by 40% the past four decades as the states along its length - Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq - pursue rapid, unilateral development of the waters' use.

Environment Nation & World World Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle Nov. 17, 2022 at 10:20 pm Updated Nov. 19, 2022 at 2:09 am ...