Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.
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This aerial picture shows a view of the Tigris river, in the village of Bajid Kandala, some 50km west of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on February 18, 2022. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
Journalists @NewVision
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.
But today the Tigris is dying.
Human activity and climate change have choked its