The irrigation channel in the district of Dawwayeh is dry due to low water levels as a result of back to back drought and severe cuts by the Iraqi government. (Photo: AP)
A view of the Dukan Dam, its emergency bell-mouth spillway (front), and the reservoir behind, in the Kurdistan Region where waters have been receding. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani (right), during his meeting with Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Aoun Diab Abdullah, May 21, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
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)
A view of the right bank (western) of the Tigris river in Iraq's capital Baghdad during a severe dust storm, April 20, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
