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)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the UNDP, June 21, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani (right), during his meeting with Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Aoun Diab Abdullah, May 21, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Water buffalo herders in the marshes of Chibayish feed their animals after back to back drought severely reduced available food stocks in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2022. (Photo: Anmar Khalil/ AP)
A vehicle drives past the iconic Freedom Monument, a 50-metre (165-foot) long bas relief that honors the 1950 revolution which overthrew Iraq's monarchy, in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on March 9, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
The sun sets over the Shatt al-Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, Oct. 30, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
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