IRAQ - Water and the Un-neighborly

"Lack of water new present from our neighbor countries" McClatchy News

Dryness, lack of water and rising food prices are the new enemies of Iraq .

Recently the voices rose loudly in Iraq warning from the dangers of decreasing the arable lands because the lack of water in the Tigress and Euphrates . This crisis caused serious problems in many sectors of Iraqis’ life like electricity and oil refineries …. It made Iraqis’ life more difficult.

The lack of water came because the dams that those dear neighboring countries are building on the two rivers.

The last dam that Turkey built stores 100 billion cube meter that mean it is store three doubles what the dams in Syria and Iraq store together. This dam will caused of losing 47% of Tigress water and losing 40% of Iraq ’s arable lands and that of course will caused emigration of millions from those who lose their lands towards the city according to experts. Iran, the other dear neighbor diverted the watercourse of Al Wind River that was flow into Iraq make it flow only inside Iranian lands and they did the same thing in many other rivers which caused drying thousands of acres in bordered countryside that deprived thousands of farmers from their income. Many Iraqis wonder, why our neighboring countries go too far in hurt Iraqis?

Some countries send those who kill us under pretext of Jihad, but those two countries chose to kill us in different way it is slow but it is very effective.

In the past our forefathers said if you deprive someone from his livelihood that means you sentenced him with death. Our neighboring countries are diversifying in vanishing life of Iraqis without taking in consideration the international treaties that organizes international relations especially these treaties that found to control the common water sources.

People in Iraq reached to conviction that if their neighbor have the ability to stop passing Oxygen to Iraq …. They will do it …. Thank God no one can stop air passing except you.