BASRA, Iraq, July 13 (Reuters ... once irrigated by the Shatt al-Arab river. Sign up here. "Everything is full of salt now because of water scarcity and pollution," he said, pointing at white ...

BASRA, Iraq — What happens when the land dries up ... his fingers as he nodded toward a pile of metal carcasses on the river shore. “These boats are how we’re making money now,” he ...

Baghdad and Basra, has been choked by dams, most of them upstream in Turkey, and falling rainfall. An AFP video journalist travelled along the river's 1,500-kilometre (900-mile) course through Iraq, ...

Though re-flooded ... who runs Nature Iraq's local office, fears rampant overfishing will soon exact a permanent toll. A man herds cattle near the Glory River, a man-made waterway engineered ...