Water Security


Cizre Dam Watch: the new report released by Save the Tigris Foundation

Cizre Dam Watch: the new report released by Save the Tigris Foundation

March 2025: Save the Tigris Foundation has released the Cizre Dam Watch Report, a comprehensive investigation into the risks posed...

  • Save the Tigris and Marshes
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
The first memorandum of cooperation between Iraq and Lebanon environmental protection movements

The first memorandum of cooperation between Iraq and Lebanon environmental protection movements

Next to the first planted avocado tree in Lebanon, aged 100 years, a new page of shared struggle is created...

  • Climate Change
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
Local Forums Host Water Conservation Trainings

Local Forums Host Water Conservation Trainings

The Water Protectors Network in Iraq, an advocacy group working to monitor and preserve Iraq’s rivers and waterways, expanded its...

  • Environment
“The Reality of Water Security and Sustainability”  A Seminar Organized by Humat Dijlah and the College of the Origins of Religion

“The Reality of Water Security and Sustainability” A Seminar Organized by Humat Dijlah and the College of the Origins of Religion

The Humat Dijlah Association (of the Iraqi Social Forum) collaborated with the College of the Origins of Religion to organize...

  • 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