What's behind Iraq's water crisis? | People & Power Documentary
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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 the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have dropped by half. Iraq’s government blames upstream water use by its neighbours as the primary culprit but has been criticised for not taking any steps at climate mitigation or adaptation strategies. And many Iraqis say oil industry water use is just exacerbating the problem.
In part two of our film Iraq’s Water Wars, People & Power meets with buffalo herders and other communities that risk losing their way of life and investigates the oil industry’s use of water.
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tears in my eyes when the tribal leader said......take the oil and give us water
Oil doesn't save life,..water does.
This part is more informative than part 1 .
Wow, just mind blowing.. Thank you for shedding light on this disaster- Let's make sustainable energy the primary source for civilization!
Water is precious than oil. No water. No life.
I have for decades remembered hearing about the marsh Arabs. Saddam quarreled with them and drained their marshes in some areas. They have a ring to them, marsh Arabs, that makes them seem like a special variety of human.
As an Iraqi citizen, I’m grateful to the honest journalism of al Jazeera for it has always been the sole source of knowing the real situation in Iraq.
Neither the Western media nor the Iraqi media are honest in covering the struggles and the issues of Iraqis, but as Sheik Muhammed said in 22:55, it’s the negligence of the government and the US that brought it and supports it are the reasons of these struggles.
The funny part is when the sheikh blamed the Americans for water scarcity, water mismanagement and corrupt Iraqi leaders!
You guys love to always blame others for your corrupt self don't ya? 😂
As an Iraqi citizen, how do differentiate between the current rule and the rule of Saddam Hussain?
@@IfNotMe both are terrible, Saddam and the current government are savage people and incompetent to run a school, let alone a country like Iraq.
I have been watching many documentaries since 6 months ago because I beleive every calamity that befalls us in West Asia is related to another. I have develped so much sympathy for Iraq now, once that I would not have without seeing the true face of their struggles. Though it won't benefit anyone, at least I know now, how they have been played in the hands of world powers and instaled governments.
This documentary makes it evident that the Iraqi government has generated numerous job openings primarily to provide salaries to a select few, rather than investing in initiatives that could genuinely create employment opportunities. It's a disheartening situation.
Dear Al Jazeera, could you link iraqi govt. with effective voluntury water organisation who make or propose resolution to tackle this crisis.
It has nothing to do with the hundreds of dams built from a certain neighbouring country up north
What would you have them do, invade Türkiye? The government must provide desalination or waste water recycling else Iraq will die.
water crisis is good sign for the Rakhi peoples because we know this information from thousands year I go from the prophet time sign for them to rising a golden heel in their future.
Build a dam at the mouth of the river, to prevent salt water from moving upstream, and to collect water in the Tigris and Euphrates.
As it stands, all of the fresh water is being wasted into the ocean. Preserve the fresh water and there's no issue. For ecological reasons, open the dam periodically to move some water and get fresher water. But ecologically, having slower moving water is much better than no water at all.
thi will dry up the peripheral lands and salt will move with wind and will sit on upstream water and soil. Plus Pesian Gulf is not an ocean, it is way shallower and if is not fed by its main water supplies it becomes too salty most of its habitas will die. There are numerous communities in the Gulf countries and Iran that rely on the Gulf for living. Plus thanks to US' decades of military presence, high density water will exacerbate titanium and Uraniam pollutions.
Be grateful Egypt, Ethiopia is letting you use its water for thousands years. Soon you will start paying to get a drop of water.
This is so heavy for me I cannot watch it in full. South of Iran is also affected as much by drought, but this is horrible. The losess of march people is just like stab in my heart, the loss of the bases of our civilizations. And on top of that the manufactured brutal landscape the secterian war have left here, with the pollution of US' burn pits and ammunations,
people, land, water, animals, with no justice, no respite.
17:32 😂😂😂😂
WHEN SADAM WAS ALIVE AND IN CHARGE WATER ISSUE WAS NEVER A PROBLEM, WHEN YOU FOLLOW WESTERN DEVILS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS
I’m glad there’s judgment Days to come and there’s paradise and Hell for those who do wrongly over others rights
Tell US to give the water lol
Iraq was always an artificial country that could not survive on its own. its trade is dependent on syria, water on turkey and iran, its oil export on kuwait since they barely have a coastline. It would have always needed to project strength to prosper. They tried and lost. Now, they can no longer do that and their neighbours have no more incentive to cooperate. In 20 years, it would cease to exist as a polity we see today. There is a reason why it always got into fights with its neighbours. Because without their cooperation this was always inevitable. It is difficult to accept the situation, but the sooner these communities figure out that life cant be sustained without water supply, the better it will be for their offspring.
yes nothing to do with US weaponizing Saddam with absolute zero supervision allowing the chemical genocide of Kursih, and not leaving the Iraqis on their own since 1981 and blowing a full invasion of country to just find this "one man"!!!. "they" didn't get into fight with neighbours, Saddam did and most people were terrified of him. US has since weaponized all separatist groups and radical secterians and the world expects Iraq to do well.
I have not heard the US make one economic or educational project with insentive for Iraqis.
Iraq is babilona and it existed 7000 years before the rest of the world claimed to be countries. They invented the first form of alphabets for all we know.
It is the US that depends on foreign invasion and pilaging half of the world to live despite being bankrupt for a century. Not Iraq or anybody else.
And I am Iranian btw.
Take a seat.
23:00 mins in, the US Government has little to do with the Iraq Gov't now.
In fact the Iraq Gov't at times has spurned them.
This is about the Iraqi democracy.
Huh just like out west here in the us
The eyes of Yahweh watch over wisdom,
but He brings to naught the words of the unfaithful.
I heard saddam was better😢... he is haunting them😢
U would rather use up all the water in oil production for exportation which serves other countries and enriches mostly foreign firms and only a few elites while the soil gets barren the fields loose produce the people go hungry . Injustice in this world
Iraq are better now...not when saddam Hussain ruled... Iraqis are better now 😂😂😂
God not so kind to Iraqis
No one care$.
Jesus Christ is coming soon. 🙏❤🙏
Whenever you have petroleum to Turkey for free, then you will get water from Turkey for free.
So what your rich getting richer and Turkish people stay poor fix your curruptions first
@@seedad117go drink oil 😂😂😂