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Iraq
Tharthar Dam’s Water Reserves Reach Unprecedented Levels Despite Drought in Iraq
2023-04-29
Germane to the discussion here the other day about the report that camel herders were moving into the hills of Kurdistan because, the report claimed, global warming was causing a drought in the traditional grazing lands. The point raised in comments was that other reports of flooding in the region contradicts the claim. Ditto for Somalia, which reportedly is suffering both from droughts and severe floods (see tweet below), going back to the other possibility that the locals are — for a variety of reasons — simply bad at managing water resources.
[Shafaq News] The Water Resources Department in Saladin Governorate announced that the water reserves of the Tharthar Dam have risen at an unprecedented rate in three years due to heavy rains and torrents from the top Zab rivers and the lower Zab towards the dam.

The department director, Bassam Abdel Wahid, stated that the water stock in the Tharthar Dam and all other storage sources were dedicated to drinking water and industrial water after the success of the entire winter plan due to water revenues during the winter season.

The approval of the summer agricultural plan is now dependent on the water storage and the coordination between the Ministries of Agriculture and Water Resources. He said.

It is worth noting that Iraq has been facing a severe drought for the past three years due to climate change, global warming, and violating the laws of countries such as Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, causing an increase in desertification spaces.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Firebomb??? Yikes!
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-04-29 23:39  

#3  Tw, it looks like our own administrators are similarly inept at managing water resources. (Or, like my friends experienced in the Arkansas River irrigation system in Colorado, the administrators permit canal leaks onto their own lands and firebomb the homes of people who point that out…)
Posted by: Glenmore    2023-04-29 16:15  

#2  So, they get a high garbage mark instead of a high water mark?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-04-29 08:24  

#1  Drought due to climate change AND global warming!

No wonder it's a desert! Map
Posted by: Bobby   2023-04-29 08:18  

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