Tag: Ilisu Dam
Iraq Fears Bevy of Levees Will Mean Parched Years Ahead
Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor, 5 April 2019 BAGHDAD — Although water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have been rising as torrential rains fill some of the largest dams in Iraq,…
Iraq: Climate-Related Security Risk Assessment
By Kawa Hassan and Camilla Born Middle East and North Africa Program & Working Group on Climate-Related Security Risks The following report was used in a July 2018…
Impoundment of Ilisu Dam Reservoir Has Not Yet Started – Drought in Iraq Has Other Reasons
Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive Hasankeyf Matters Press statement Impoundment of Ilisu Dam Reservoir has not yet started – Drought in Iraq has other reasons 11.06.2018 On…
As Summer Approaches and Ilisu Dam Goes Into Operation, Iraq’s Water Crisis Intensifies
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign “Significant quantities of water will continue to flow to Iraq,” the ambassador of Turkey to Iraq, Fatih Yildiz,…
Facing Eviction, Merchants Decry Turkey Dam Project
Diego Cupolo, Deutsche Welle, 10 April 2018 Merut Tekin comes from a long line of merchants in southeast Turkey. From as far back as anyone can remember, his…
Postponement of Ilisu Dam Reservoir is Not a Success!
Statement by Humat Dijlah Baghdad, January 2018 With great concern we are following the decreasing water supply to the Tigris River — a problem which has the potential…
Nature Based Solutions to Big Dams Can Help the Mesopotamian Region and the World
Bonn, Germany – 11 November 2017 During a session of the COP23 on “Managing water scarcity for agriculture”, the Save the Tigris campaign posed a question to Mr.…
Destruction Accelerates in Hasankeyf and Tigris Basin
++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive +++ Hasankeyf Matters +++ Destruction Accelerates in Hasankeyf and the Tigris Basin 30 Oct 2017 Announcement Environmental and heritage destruction have accelerated in…
Iraqi activists stand in solidarity with the people of Hasankeyf
In more than 15 cities across the world on the Global Action Day for Hasankeyf on 23 September actions were organized to protest against Ilisu Dam, the controversial…
Call to “2nd Global Action Day” for Hasankeyf on 23rd September 2017!
Initiative to keep Hasankeyf Alive, 30 August 2017 We call activists, social movements, NGO’s and all others in the world to join the second global action day for…
Rocks in Hasankeyf Destroyed by Explosives – Destruction Enters New Phase
Press release by the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive 21 August 2017 With the demolition of human formed rocks through explosives in Hasankeyf, the destruction of this…
Equal Water Shares for the peoples of Iraq and Iran – A call for collaboration to preserve the shared rivers!
Press statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign 1 August 2017 Recently dams have been seriously affecting the water courses of Iraq. The shared rivers…
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