{"id":64191,"date":"2022-11-21T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64191"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:28:00","slug":"politics-climate-conspire-as-tigris-and-euphrates-dwindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64191","title":{"rendered":"Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle<\/a><\/h3>\n
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DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) \u2014 Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit\u2019s sprawling farm in Turkey\u2019s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s already grown a small corn patch on some of the water. The golden stalks are tall and abundant. \u201cThe kernels are big,\u201d he says, proudly. Soon he\u2019ll be able to water all his fields.<\/p>\n

Over 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) downstream in southern Iraq, nothing grows anymore in Obeid Hafez\u2019s wheat farm. The water stopped coming a year ago, the 95-year-old said, straining to speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time we planted the seed, it went green, then suddenly it died,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Water levels in the Chibayish marshes of southern Iraq are declining and fishermen say certain water-ways are no longer accessible by boat, in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2022. (AP Photo\/Anmal Khalil)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The starkly different realities are playing out along the length of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, one of the world\u2019s most vulnerable watersheds. River flows have fallen by 40% in the past four decades as the states along its length \u2014 Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq \u2014 pursue rapid, unilateral development of the waters\u2019 use.<\/p>\n

The drop is projected to worsen as temperatures rise from climate change. Both Turkey and Iraq, the two biggest consumers, acknowledge they must cooperate to preserve the river system that some 60 million people rely on to sustain their lives.<\/p>\n

But political failures and intransigence conspire to prevent a deal sharing the rivers.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press conducted more than a dozen interviews in both countries, from top water envoys and senior officials to local farmers, and gained exclusive visits to controversial dam projects…<\/p>\n

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Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) \u2014 Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit\u2019s sprawling farm in Turkey\u2019s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says. He\u2019s already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[33198,140,33399,1912,441,442,637,33400,776,33398,818,866],"class_list":["post-64191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ap-news","tag-climate","tag-euphrates-river","tag-food-production","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-politics","tag-samya-kullab","tag-syria","tag-tigris-river","tag-turkey","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64192,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64191\/revisions\/64192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}