The River Tigris faces a number of real dangers, most of them associated with completed projects or ones underway in neighboring states. The most important are: The Ilisu Dam in Turkey (under construction). The diversion of river tributaries originating in Iran (either underway or perhaps in most cases completed). The huge pumping station in Syria that aims to pump
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The outcome of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts may rest on who controls the region’s dwindling water supplies, say security analysts in London and Baghdad. Rivers, canals, dams, sewage and desalination plants are now all military targets in the semi-arid region that regularly experiences extreme water shortages, says Michael Stephen, deputy director of the Royal United Services
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The site of fisherman sailing on the Shatt al -Arab waterway had become a thing of the past. Southern Iraq's marshlands have been revived recently which is encouraging the fishermen in a new way and boat maker of that region are finding new hopes for their businesses. During 1990, the area was completely dumped and drained by the president of Iraq at that time, Mr. Saddam Huss
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I was not invited to last week’s Strategic Foresight Group’s Blue Peace meeting in Jordon but that comes as no surprise to me because when, at the Blue Peace meeting in Istanbul in March, I queried why there was no Arabic translation available for the numerous representatives of the Arabic media, I was curtly told by Sundeep Waslekar, founder of the Strategic Foresight Group“We
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