Tag: Kurdistan Region
Building More Large Dams Threatens Southern Iraq and Increases Drought and Water Scarcity: No More False Solutions
Statement by Save the Tigris – Amsterdam, April 15, 2022 Our concern is growing over the Iraqi governments’ persistence and insistence on building more large dams on the…
Water Transfer Projects Threaten the Lesser Zab!
Statement by Save the Tigris, 5 March 2021 Save the Tigris Campaign is a coalition of civil society organisations from nine countries concerned with water justice in the…
New Report by Save the Tigris Reviews the Dam Construction Policies of the Kurdistan Region
According to the UNDP, the water discharge of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers is set to decrease by 50% between 2009 and 2025. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) which governs…
Countdown to Mesopotamian Water Forum Virtual Assembly: Local Assembly of Kurdistan Region of Iraq
From 16-17 May 2020 the Virtual Assembly of the Mesopotamian Water Forum will take place online. 1 year after the first Mesopotamian Water Forum held in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan…
Council for Social Cohesion in Sulaimania Addresses Medical Waste Problem in the City
In the past months the Social Cohesion Council in the city of Sulaimania has established itself as a valuable civil society space for dialogue, consisting of men and…
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,…
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…