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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

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Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq. Experts warn that nearly one third of the irrigated land in Iraq will have no water by 2050. Iraq is one of the five countries most exposed to climate change, according to the UN. The level of the Tigris entering Iraq has dropped to just 35 percent of its average.

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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

Middle East News: BAGHDAD: It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

BAGHDAD: It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation 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 Meso

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Twilight Of The Tigris: Iraq's Mighty River Drying Up

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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

BAGHDAD - It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

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