The Tigris River and Euphrates Rivers, which are the tributaries of the Shat-Al-Arab River have an array of oil-industry-related facilities and power plants on their banks, which is the source of the Nickel contamination (Zwijnenburg, Citation2020). Since 2015, there has been a very ...
. This phenomenon may be associated with the situation that built-up areas are often sited far from highly dynamic regions (e.g., steep land, headwaters, and highly active/unstable fans and floodplains). On the other hand, the highly developed river embankment projects including river levees i...
aTurkey-Iraq: Ilisu Dam and the Tigris River: Southeastern Anatolian Project includes the construction of 22 dams in the Tigris Euphrates basin, has been going on for some time with ‘drying up’ implications for Syria and Iraq, and the possibility that the two rivers will no longer be able...
CAMPBELL ROBERTSON The New York Times
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