Under its Southeast Anatolia Project, or GAP by its Turkish acronym, it has built at least 19 dams on the Euphrates and Tigris, and several more are envisaged for a total of 22.

But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where—with its twin river the Euphrates—it made Mesopotamia a cradle of ...

High salinity is killing fish and harming water buffalo in the Euphrates marshes and the Tigris river-fed wetlands bordering Iran, it added. “The dire situation is having a devastating impact on ...

Water agreements between Iraq and Turkey. Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the ...

Diplomatic resolutions are complicated by the unpredictable flow of the Tigris, but Turkey’s control of 88.7% of the Euphrates basin’s water potential is the main strain on water relations.

But The Wounded Tigris is no policy memo. In the end, it is a final plea to save this river and with it, future generations of Iraqis. The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of ...

Under its Southeast Anatolia Project, or GAP by its Turkish acronym, it has built at least 19 dams on the Euphrates and Tigris and several more are envisaged for a total of 22.

Molla al-Rached, a 65-year-old farmer, is pictured with his dogs in the village of Ras al-Bisha in southern Iraq on Feb. 12, 2022, where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its ...

A combination of climate change and politics is threatening the Tigris-Euphrates river system, one of the world’s most vulnerable watersheds Samya Kullab Friday 18 November 2022 06:19 GMT ...