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it's World Water Day... don't be a dick
Two NASA satellite photos from the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project show how the Qadisiyah Reservoir in Iraq is shrinking. The reservoir, along the Euphrates River, and in the “cradle of civilization” — where irrigated agriculture emerged nearly 8,000 years ago — lost 117 million acre feet of water (enough water to cover 117 million football fields a foot deep) between 2003 and 2009, according to researchers.
This was due, in part, to aggressive groundwater pumping for agriculture. As in most watersheds, aquifers in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley are connected through the water table to surface waters. The United Nations has devoted this years’ World Water Day to discussion of cooperation, instead of conflict and potential water wars. There are few places where the line between the two is more fragile. The Tigris and the Euphrates originate as snowmelt in the highlands of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, before running hundreds of miles to the Persian Gulf.
Countries in the basin, including Syria, are scrambling to secure limited resources, as populations grow and climates dry out. Despite a series of attempts at international water management agreements in the region over the course of almost 70 years, Turkey maintains the upper hand, continuing to build massive upstream dams that threaten to withhold precious supplies from downstream neighbors.
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Originally posted by naynay View Postnow its 4:09 and you still havent come up for air! i've had marathon head but not like this! thank you for your service!!!
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