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Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water

2014-08-25 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: There is a water war going on in the Middle East this summer. Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations. Blood is being spilled to capture the giant dams that control the regions two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. These structures hold back vast volumes of water. With their engineers fleeing as the Islamic State (ISIS) advances, the...

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