Boys play in the water of the Chibayish marshes in southern Iraq which has suffered from high salinity levels as a result of back to back drought and declining water levels, in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Friday Sept. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar K
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 displaced Syrian boy from Ras al-Ain, a border town controlled by Turkey and its Syrian proxies, fills jerry cans with water at the Washukanni camp in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on April 16, 2020 (Photo: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP).