2011年1月29日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq water shortages raising ethnic tensions (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 02:43 AM PST

An armed Sahwa militiaman stands next to an Iraqi Arab farmer checking low water levels in a canal running through arid agricultural land in the Hawijah district of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Saturday. A worsening water shortage in Iraq is raising tensions in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, where Arab farmers accuse the Kurdistan region of ruining them by closing the valves to a dam in winter.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A worsening water shortage in Iraq is raising tensions in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, where Arab farmers accuse the Kurdistan region of ruining them by closing the valves to a dam in winter.


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