Water Crisis

Iraqi President Abdul-Latif Rashid (right) during his meeting with United States Ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski, Feb. 26, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Presidency)

Iraq

Iraqi President discusses water crisis with US envoy

Civilians in Hasakah have been relying on water trucks due to the lack of water in Hasakah (Photo: Ronahi)

Syria

Turkish authorities are exacerbating an acute water crisis: HRW

The Alouk water reserviour in northeastern Syria. (Photo: Achive)

Syria

Turkish-backed groups resume water flow to Hasakah city

The Alouk water reservoir in northeastern Syria. (Photo: Achive)

Syria

Turkey continues to cut off water to Hasakah city: SANA agency

Water borehole equipment drilling a well in Erbil's Badawa neighborhood, August 14, 2021 (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Nearly 300 groundwater wells dried up in Erbil province in 2022: Water authority

A combine harvester at the middle of a wheat field harvesting crops in Yousifiyah, Iraq Tuesday, May. 24, 2022 (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq

Severe water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq

One of Erbil's water treatment plants known as Ifraz. (Photo: Su Yapi Co.)

Kurdistan

KRG allocates $14 million for Erbil's water distribution network

Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Mahdi Rashid al-Hamdani. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

‘Iran diverted river courses, stopping them flowing into Iraq’: Minister

A Syrian woman carries a container of water provided by the UNICEF in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakah, on July 8 2021, after disruption in water supply from the Allouk station. (AFP photo)

Syria

Northeast Syria facing slow-moving disaster due to water shortage: PAX

Omid Khoshnaw, Erbil governor, during the press conference, Spt. 4, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Erbil builds four water ponds amid water crisis

Drought has ruined crops in Haji Hassa’s farm outside Kuri Jami village, Sinjar. (Photo: Fared Baram/NRC, August 2021)

Kurdistan

Wheat production in Kurdistan Region could decrease by half due to drought

Kurdish charity sends water to Basra as reports of poisoning increase

middle east

Kurdish charity sends water to Basra as reports of poisoning increase

Turkey ambassador to Iraq says ‘sufficient’ water supply will be released to Tigris

middle east

Turkey ambassador to Iraq says ‘sufficient’ water supply will be released to Tigris