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21 Jan 2021 BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq, Turkey And The Tigris Water Quota Deal
The government of Iraq has warned that the country could face a water crisis in the absence of a water quota deal with Turkey, which faces its own water shortage challenges.Media in the region are quoting concerns expressed by Iraq’s water resources minister Medhi Rashid Al-Hamdani in January following recent talks with Turkey on water resources from the Tigris River, one of Iraq’s primary water sources...
3 Jan 2021 BASRA
Safe Water Funding For Basra Governorate
The Netherlands has committed USD $6.41 million to support UNICEF and The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to ensure that almost a million residents of Basra governorate have access to safe water. This support for up to 960,000 people comes at a time when less than 11% of Basra's population has access to clean drinking water on site and the majority of households (8 out of 10) only receive 10 hours of water per day in their homes...
23 Nov 2020 BAGHDAD
Iran Accused Of Scuppering Saudi-Iraqi Agricultural Project
Saudi Arabia abandoned a major agricultural investment project being discussed with Iraq in its early stages due to a water deficit, according to the Iraqi government. Unofficial sources, however, said the project was actually scrapped because of heavy pressure from Iran’s agents and proxies, including politicians and leaders of armed Shia militias...
10 Nov 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland
The Harmful Environmental Impacts Of War
A new, jointly-produced report from a diverse group of organisations working on human rights, peacebuilding and environmental issues has been launched to demonstrate the breadth and complexity of conflict-linked environmental harm.Case studies from Iraq, Syria, Colombia, Yemen, Ukraine, Laos DPR and Senegal direct attention to the environment in relation to armed conflict...
9 Nov 2020 WASHINGTON DC
United States Formally Exits Paris Climate Agreement
Au revoir, Paris Agreement. As of Wednesday, under United Nations rules, the United States is officially out of the global climate accord. Here’s a look at how it happened, what it means and what might happen next. As of Wednesday, in addition to the United States, the countries that originally signed but have not formally adopted the Paris Agreement are: Angola, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, South Sudan, Turkey and Yemen...
19 Oct 2020 Basra, Iraq
Basra City Canals Clogged By Solid Waste, Chemicals, Sediment
New satellite mapping of the canal system of Basra, Iraq, reveals an environmental disaster in the waterways.A study deploying United Nation's Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) technology, conducted by REACH, highlights and emphasises the deterioration in this vital infrastructure...
29 Sep 2020 BRUSSELS, Belgium
UNHCR Awarded Prize For Innovative Water Technology Solution In Refugee Camps
The European Commission has awarded the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) $1.16 Million USD for implementing a reliable and inexpensive solution to providing water to refugee camps in Uganda.Delivering water by tanker-trucks to remote refugee camps was a challenge for UNHCR due to the prohibitive cost and the inability to monitor the process accurately...
15 Sep 2020 SYDNEY, Australia
Climate Change May Displace Over 1.2 Billion People By 2050
More than 1.2 billion people are at threat of being displaced by 2050, due to environmental change, conflict and civil unrest, warns a new report by think tank the Institute of Economics & Peace.Predictions include that by 2040, 5.4 billion people – more than half of the world's projected population – will live in the 59 countries experiencing high or extreme water stress, including India and China...
14 Sep 2020 TEHRAN
Iraq Delegation For Water Share Negotiations With Iran, Turkey
The Iraqi Foreign Relations Committee in Parliament formed a special delegation headed by the Minister of Water Resources, Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, to resolve the water file with Iran and Turkey. “The negotiations delegation will seek to have serious solutions to releasing the shared water, and not establishing more dams, which have turned a number of regions in Iraq into deserts, as well as cut off a lot of water from agricultural areas,” said the committee’s rapporteur, MP Iqbal Abdul Hussein...
2 Sep 2020 Edinburgh, Scotland
New Report Proposes Solutions To The World's Water Conflicts
Water security challenges, and related instances of human conflict, are increasing across the world as populations grow, economies expand, and climate change begins to impact the hydrological cycle, says a new report published 2 September.“Ending Conflicts Over Water: Solutions to Water and Security Challenges”, which has been produced by authors from the World Resources Institute (Charles Iceland; Ayushi Trivedi) and the Pacific Institute (Peter Gleick) with the Water, Peace and Security Partnership, describes a global rise in water-related conflict, observing political instability and intensifying driving factors, including population growth, economic expansion, severe and prolonged drought, climate change, pollution, the destruction of natural landscapes, upstream infrastructure development (such as dams and diversions), inefficient water use in agriculture, poor water resources management and weak institutions...
31 Aug 2020 ERBIL
Iran Blocks Water Supply to Kurdish Farmers
For the past week Iran has blocked the flow of the Little Zab and Sirwan rivers across the border, two main sources of the Kurdistan Region’s Dukan and Darbandikhan dams, five days after Tehran initiated a set of major irrigation and drainage projects in its western provinces. Haji (a local) says the dwindling river levels threatens a total of 750 acres of farmland in Sulaimani’s Pishdar region, leaving them without proper irrigation...
25 Aug 2020 Damascus, Syria
Civil Society Groups Appeal To UN As Key Syria Water Station Disabled Again In Conflict Zone
For the eighth time since October 2019, actions by Turkey and Sunni rebel allies cut water service from the Allouk (Alok) pumping station in Syria, 13 August.While flow from the station was partially restored 23 August, potable water supply has not yet been restored to parts of Al-Hasakeh city which is under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is considered by Turkey to be a terrorist group...