Rampant water pollution threatens Iraq's shrinking rivers

Baghdad (AFP) Feb 21, 2024

Stricken by drought and depleted by upstream dams, Iraq's once mighty rivers the Tigris and Euphrates are suffocating under pollutants from sewage to medical waste. In a country where half the population lacks access to safe drinking water, according to UN figures, state institutions are to blame for a man-made disaster which is turning rivers into waste dumps. "What is strange about wat