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September 4, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gu2j6Bh6MDJrCVCqtkgxKj5De8agD9AFT1R00

Turkey, Iraq and Syria Tussle over Water Rights

[AP] Suzan Fraser - Drought-stricken Iraq has accused its upstream neighbors Turkey and Syria of taking too much from the rivers and their tributaries. Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have left Iraq parched for a second straight year, wrecking swaths of farmland and threatening drinking water supplies. Sharing water has been a potential source of conflict since the 1970s when Turkey and Syria began constructing dams.

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