Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up ...Saudi Arabia

Tue, 2022-09-20 23:24 BAGHDAD: It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where — with its twin river the Euphrates — it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilization thousands of years ago. Iraq may be oil-rich but the country is plagued by poverty after decades of war and by droughts and desertification.Main category: Middle-East

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