water politics


Statement of the Iraqi Water Week 14-22 March 2023

Statement of the Iraqi Water Week 14-22 March 2023

Water management in Iraq and its scarcity since 20 years of promised progress and a worse water situation than ever...

  • Environment
The Decision Maker and the benefits that are envisaged from finalising the Makhool Dam (3.3)

The Decision Maker and the benefits that are envisaged from finalising the Makhool Dam (3.3)

It is difficult to know all the benefits envisaged from finalising this dam. All available information highlights the importance of...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
The decision maker and the situation development for Makhool Dam (2.3)

The decision maker and the situation development for Makhool Dam (2.3)

The Iraqi Energy Council 1 has decided to agree on the Higher National Committee of Water’s recommendation (from its assembly...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
The decision maker and those responsible for the Makhool Dam (1.3)

The decision maker and those responsible for the Makhool Dam (1.3)

Ismael Dawood July 2022 The ramifications caused,as a result of the Iraqi Government’s decision taken at the beginning of 2021,...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
Save the Tigris: Environmental Campaign against building Dams inside and outside Iraq

Save the Tigris: Environmental Campaign against building Dams inside and outside Iraq

Husam Sobhi – Environmental Activist In the year 2013, the Iraqi engineer and founder of “Iraq Nature”, organization for environmental...

  • Environment
The Iraqi government prepared a proposal to resolve the water issue with Turkey

The Iraqi government prepared a proposal to resolve the water issue with Turkey

Shafaq News The Iraqi Minister of Water Resources, Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, stressed on Monday that “courtesy” is not allowed at...

  • Environment
A Training for Humat Dijlah Activists in Preparation for a Regional Water Forum

A Training for Humat Dijlah Activists in Preparation for a Regional Water Forum

Following a strategy meeting in April 2017 with river activists from Iraq, Turkey and Iran, Save the Tigris Campaign announced...

  • Environment
Water Activists Meet Privately with the Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Hassan Al-Janabi

Water Activists Meet Privately with the Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Hassan Al-Janabi

Activists from the Save the Tigris Campaign, Iraqi Social Forum and Humat Dijla were invited to meet with Iraqi Minister...

  • Environment
Fostering solidarity across borders to protect the shared rivers of Mesopotamia!

Fostering solidarity across borders to protect the shared rivers of Mesopotamia!

Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Increasingly water resources are becoming a source of conflict in...

  • Environment
Three Reasons Why Some People Downplay the Risk of the Ilisu Dam on Iraq?

Three Reasons Why Some People Downplay the Risk of the Ilisu Dam on Iraq?

In this intervention, the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign aims to review the three most important...

  • Environment
Iraqi Jurists Union Call to Prevent the Construction of the Turkey’s Ilisu dam on the Tigris River

Iraqi Jurists Union Call to Prevent the Construction of the Turkey’s Ilisu dam on the Tigris River

The headquarters of the Iraqi Jurists Union launched a broad campaign to save the Tigris River and the marshes of...

  • Civil Society News
Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case

Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case

By: Ahmed az-Zoba`i Translation from Arabic by: Safaa Sheikh Hammed Original Arabic: http://www.iraqnewspaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=22010 “Egypt is the gift of the Nile,” says Herodotus. Egypt could have been part of the...

  • Anti-Dams Actions