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Article: IRAQ: MESOPOTAMIAN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER WIPING OUT ASSYRIAN SETTLEMENTS.(Dam construction on the Tigris and Euphrates riverrs is opposed)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- September 2, 2001
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The ecological disaster facing the wetlands in southern Iraq will also have an impact on Assyrian settlements, if the construction of 30 new dams along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is allowed to proceed. The United Nations Environmental Program has reported the dam construction involves the building of more dams than the capacity of the Tigris and Euphrates and will be brought to the attention of the World Summit for UN Substantial Development in 2002, according to a "Zinda" report on 23 August based on a "Turkish Daily ...
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