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Farmers struggle as drought hits their lands hard in Iraq

Rainfall in Iraq has given farmers brief relief from drought conditions they have been battling.But they warn that much more water is needed to keep their crops growing. The rivers that supply this ...
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Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the early Islamic period changing rivers and landscapes of the Mesopotamian plain Peter Verkinderen

The waterways of ancient Iraq were crucial to its prosperity. While they were maintained, Iraq and neighbouring Khuzistan, in southwest Iran, were the richest and most productive agricultural areas of ...
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Dry cruels Iraq’s wheat self-sufficiency dream

An unfolding water crisis in Iraq's rain-starved rivers harms food security, and has sparked a water-sharing plan with ...
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Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal

Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, ...