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| Iraq |
| Iraq’s water crisis traced upstream to Turkish, Iranian dams |
| 2018-06-04 |
| [Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region ‐ The water crisis has spread in southern and central provinces of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region as dams built by ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran, irrespective of international laws, slow the flow of rivers into Iraq to a trickle. There are growing fears up to seven million people will be displaced due to the dramatic fall in water resources. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Not just the Rio Grande. There's a constant water war in the west over who gets to use the most water from the Colorado, Rio Grande, Arkansas, and Platte watersheds. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2018-06-04 22:32 |
| #4 Procopius, there is a whole system of US water law based on 'prior appropriation' which says the first user of a surface water system has a right to the percentage of the flow he was using when another user starts drawing on it, and so on. These rights are transferable, so an urban water system may buy out a farmer who had been using a lot of water rights for irrigation. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-06-04 12:51 |
| #3 Any different than with Colorado, New Mexico or Texas on who owns the Rio Grande water? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-04 07:57 |
| #2 12 years ago I chatted with a former Turkish government official, not a fan of Erdogan or his movement. He made it clear Turkey would use control of water to force support for Erdogan in the region. |
| Posted by: Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-06-04 07:45 |
| #1 In 2007 dozens of water Wells were dug on FOB Speicher at Tekrit. Absolutely lovely water from the gravel at a depth of 85 meters. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-04 01:16 |