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Climate, politics double threat as Tigris-Euphrates shrivels

Por: ABC News World November 18, 2022

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DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey -- Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says.Over 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) downstream in southern , nothing grows anymore in Obeid Hafez’s wheat farm. The water stopped coming a year ago, the 95-year-old said.The starkly different realities are... + full article



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