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The Euphrates River, at the 'Cradle of Civilization,' Is Drying Up
The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...
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In Turkey, a power play will leave ancient towns underwater
Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s ... This past spring Iraq’s drought worsened, and the Tigris trickled to dangerous ...
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Book Review: The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization
In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey ... A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces. Iraq ...
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From lush to dust: Iraq's Lake Habbaniyah continues to dry up
Lake Habbaniyah, once a shimmering oasis of tranquillity and natural beauty west of Baghdad, has become a heartbreaking symbol of Iraq’s worsening drought ... the Tigris and Euphrates, due ...
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The Euphrates - the Current of Time and Civilisation
The northern and north-eastern side of Jebel Bishri parallels at the Euphrates River. The area belongs to the Fertile Crescent. Village life expanded with irrigation agriculture on the Euphrates.