A picture shows the receding waterline of the Habbaniyah lake affected by severe drought in Iraq's Anbar province, August 11, 2023. (Photo: Murtadha Ridha/AFP)
Iraqi youths swim in the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the end of a hot summer day in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Aug. 11, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A dry fish farms in the village of Albu Mustafa in Hilla , following a crack down by the Iraqi government on unauthorised ponds in an effort to meet the country's water demands, July 6, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
An Iraqi dives into the waters of the Tigris river in Baghdad on July 12, 2023, as temperatures soared past 45 degrees Celsius. (Photo: Ahmed AL-Rubay/ AFP)
Fishermen stand in a boat as they inspect thousands of dead fish floating by the bank of the Amshan river, which draws its water from the Tigris, in Iraq's southeastern Maysan governorate on July 3, 2023. (Asaad Niazi / AFP)
