Vital River Is Withering, and Iraq Has No Answer -- New York TimesSIBA, Iraq — The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix.
Withered by decades of dictatorial mismanagement and then neglect, by drought and the thirst of Iraq’s neighbors, the river formed by the convergence of the Tigris and the Euphrates no longer has the strength the keep the sea at bay.
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My Comment: War have been started for less reasons.
Reuters has been covering the same story for the past few days. Their stories are .... Iraq's thirst for fresh water grows .... and .... Lack of water threatens Iraq's long-term stability.
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