Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
The Tigris, the lifeline connecting the storied cities of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra, has been choked by dams, most of them upstream in Turkey, and falling rainfall.
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Iraq may be oil-rich but the country is plagued by poverty after decades of war and by droughts and desertification.
