HILLAH,Iraq: Iraq is among the international locations hardest hit by local weather change.
The affect is being felt acutely by the nation’s farmers, who’ve seen crop yields diminish in recent times as temperatures rise.
Farmers in different industries, like Sarhan Jaber Taher, whose household has been rearing water buffalo for generations, have additionally suffered.
They take care of 200 of 300 of the animals burrently, making a dwelling off their milk. However a altering local weather has been consuming into their income.
The Euphrates, the longest river in Western Asia, has fed the Fertile Crescent – a crescent-shaped area that spans a number of international locations together with Iraq – for hundreds of years.
Nevertheless, upstream dams, outdated strategies of irrigation and local weather change have been ravenous the availability of water in central Iraq.
Officers stated water flows within the Euphrates, and the Tigris river, which runs nearly parallel to it, had been down roughly 70 per cent final yr in comparison with earlier a long time.
Additionally they stated Iraq has misplaced a fifth of its farming land over the previous 20 years, making water extra scarce.