Publications

This section lists all publications produced by Save the Tigris on various topics in the Tigris-Euphrates basin, including dams, pollution and heritage protection. These include reports, papers and articles.

  • Report “The Impact of Climate Change Induced Water Scarcity on the Economic Life of Inhabitants in the Central and Western Hammar Marshes of Iraq”. Report in Arabic, summary in English. May 2026.
  • Report on the objectives and potential risks of the Cizre Dam, hydropower and irrigation project on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. Summaries in English, Arabic and Turkish. March 2025.
  • Article “Environmental and Socioeconomic Challenges of the Al-Hawizeh Marshes” in the 2024 report of World Heritage Watch (p. 127), June 2024.
  • Report “From Clouds to Communities” on rainwater harvesting in Syria, January 2024.
  • Article “The Ahwar of Iraq: Water Scarcity is Persisting” in the 2023 report of World Heritage Watch (p. 130), June 2023.
  • Report on the environmental, social and cultural impacts of the Makhoul Dam in Iraq, July 2022.
  • Report on evaporation losses from dam reservoirs in Iraq, November 2021.
  • Article “The Ahwar of Iraq: Persisting Threats and Paths to Protection” in the 2021 report of World Heritage Watch (p. 127), June 2021.
  • Report on unsustainable bird hunting in the Central Marshes, November 2020.
  • Report “Damming the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Structural gaps in the KRG dam construction policies”, June 2020.
  • Article “The Mesopotamia Marshes in Peril” in the Heritage Dammed report (p. 58), June 2019.
  • Article “The Ahwar of Iraq: World Heritage in Peril” in the 2018 report of World Heritage Watch (p. 100), June 2018.
  • Report on pollution of the Tigris River in Baghdad, April 2018.
  • Report on the impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, October 2016.
  • Article on mega water projects and the environmental crisis in the Iraqi Marshes in a publication by A Sud (Italy) on environmental migration, 15 July 2016.
  • Article “Civil Society in Iraq: Advocating for the protecting of the Iraqi Marshes” in the 2016 report of World Heritage Watch “Civil Society and Sustainable Development in the UNESCO World Heritage” (p. 86), July 2016.
  • Report “The Ilisu Dam and its impact on human rights in Iraq: the Iraq government’s failure to act” presented to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva, 4 September 2015.
  • Article on the emergence of ecological movements in the Middle-East, highlighting campaigns for water rights in Iraq in a publication by New Compass (Oslo, Norway) on Social Ecology and Social Change, March 2015.
  • Legal paper on the legal possibilities available to Iraq to respond to the threat posed by the Ilisu Dam as presented by the campaign to the Iraqi government, March 2014.
  • Paper presented by the Save The Tigris Campaign to the International workshop held in Basra, 15-16 February 2014: “Water Quality in Basra: Towards a National Policy and (Inter)national Cooperation”.
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