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Article: IRAQ: IRAQ RIVER PROJECT POSES ECOLOGICAL THREAT TO GULF.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 5, 2000
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The Al-Shatt Al-'Arab River in Iraq, which is formed by the confluence of the Tigris, Euphrates and Karun rivers, has now been drained due to river diversion and the completion of a man-made canal called the "third river." This draining is causing the loss of internationally important wetlands, according to a report in the "Kuwait Times" of 25 May. Baghdad's Minister of Irrigation Mahmud Diyab Al-Ahmad announced that Iraq has built a canal linking the Tigris River to the central province of Diyala. Al-Ahmad said the canal, 10 miles in length, was built in two months and called it "the leader's gift" in honor of President Saddam Husseyn who ordered its construction in ...