Water shortages
Baghdad city. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
The impact of water shortage between 2024 and 2025 in the Sulaimani province. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan24)
A fisherman walks across a dry patch of land in the marshes in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Sept. 2, 2022. (Photo: AP)
People block a road with burning tyres as they protest water shortages and the drying up of rivers, on the main road linking the Babil and Qadisiyah governorates in the Al-Majriya area of central Iraq's Hilla city on Jul. 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
A striking contrast in the same location in Raparin within just one year. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi man entangled in a chaotic web of electrical wires, apparently attempting to manage the tangled overhead cables. (Photo: AFP)
Ari Ahmad, General Director of the Water and Sewage Directorate, speaking to Kurdistan24, May 7, 2025. (Photo: Kurdsitan24)
Photo designed by Kurdistan24.
Northeast of Syria (Rojava). (Photo: network streams from Rojava)
Dhi Qar residents transporting water in tanks amid the water crisis. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi marshland in Dhi Qar province. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
A rice field in Iraq. (Photo: Kurtdistan24)
A picture taken on May 5, 2024 shows the Darbandikhan Dam in Kurdistan Region almost full after strong rainfalls. (Photo: AFP)
A plumbing faucet seen in Umm Asafir. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Duhok Dam. (Photo: Kurmanj Nhili/Kurdistan 24)
Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw speaking at the press conference, July 15, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
