NASIRIYA, IRAQ (AFP) – Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said on Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages.
In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches.
The Water Ministry blamed the situation in some southern provinces on “the low quantity of water reaching Iraq from neighbouring Turkiye”. “This has triggered a sharp drop in the…
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