Iraq's disappearing Eden: Water shortages could force four million people to flee their homes
The IndependentIslanded by cracked and caustic earth, a dome-shaped hut sits beached in the beating heat of the south Iraqi sun. “I saw the rivers there, they were overflowing, I don’t understand why the water can’t be redirected to us,” the buffalo breeder says, rearranging his headscarf. We are expecting 4 million displaced people over the next eight years from the water crisis Yousif Muayed Youssef, Iraqi Environment Ministry official “From the Isis crisis and the military operation, we had nearly three million internally displaced people. But we are expecting four million displaced people over the next eight years from the water crisis,” Yousif Muayed Youssef, tells The Independent from Baghdad. Is that too much to ask?” The first part of the Water Wars series is online here, Boiling Basra: Residents afraid of their taps as Iraq’s water crisis threatens to destabilise the region
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