The power of geography The Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate in the ... Binding legal frameworks based on international river basin principles. Joint river commissions involving Iraq, Syria ...

As climate change and geopolitical tensions converge, South Asia's fragile hydro-politics could be entering a dangerous new ...

GRACE measured groundwater usage between 2003 and 2009 and found that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin—comprising Turkey ... the nearly dry Jordan River, and Israel has agreed to release freshwater ...

Tim Marshall examines why water is fast becoming a trigger for conflict, from South Asia to the Middle East – and why climate ...

ca 550 B.C., showing the Marduk temple complex and the Etemenanki as seen from the Euphrates River. Image courtesy of Album / Alamy Stock Photo Of all the cities that bloomed along the Tigris and ...

Facing the worst water reserves in eight decades, Iraq launched a regional initiative aimed at protecting the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers ... is strangling river flow into Iraq. "Iraq, which is ...

In the capital and throughout Iraq, household waste dumps, factories, power plants, and oil refineries have turned the main river system of the Middle East – Tigris, Euphrates, and Shatt-El-Arab ...

BAGHDAD, May 24 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Sudani announced, Saturday, the launch of a regional initiative aimed at protecting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from environmental ...