The challenges of Iraqi water security and the options available to achieve it Research paper from the Master Thesis tagged (effects of Turkish water projects in Iraq) | ||
| Economic Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 43, September 2016, Pages 46-64 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Iyad K. Ali; Dr. Abdul R. Yusuf | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Iraq suffers from a water problem of internal and external factors, factors interior is increasing demand, due to population growth and the increasing requirements of economic development, as well as the climatic changes that are seeing more drought and scarcity of rain and high temperatures, and the intensification of evaporation, which increases the water wastage in agriculture , and the problems of water pollution to a large limits exceeded Standards set by the Iraqi state, while external factors, they include policies upstream countries (Turkey), through the construction of dams and projects on the basins of the Tigris and Euphrates, the leading exporters of surface water in Iraq, as well as a decline in the quantity and quality of water received through Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to levels that do not meet basic needs, which has become a threat to food security. | ||
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