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What's behind Iraq's water crisis? | People & Power Documentary
Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/IU_5YH70lAE Iraq is running out of water. It is the fifth most vulnerable nation to the impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations. Temperatures have risen by more than 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) since the end of the 19th century, double the global average. The impact has been particularly visible in the past two years. Water levels in…
Why Iraq's rivers are dying? | Al Jazeera World | AJ #shorts
War and pollution plague Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers, leaving fishermen struggling to survive. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AlJazeeraWorld Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AlJazeeraWorld Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_aljazeeraworld/ Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/ #Aljazeeraenglish #News
Iraq's extreme heat and water shortages – BBC News
Iraq is one of the most climate-vulnerable places on Earth. This summer, Sheikh Kezem Al-Kaabi fights to continue farming his ancestral land despite extreme heat and worsening water shortages. In Baghdad, traffic cop Sa’ad Saddam Abdulhasan is responsible for one of the city’s busiest intersections. He keeps the city moving, but that means working in 50C heat. BBC Life at 50C investigates how extreme heat…