The water crisis in Iraq has become a serious concern, especially in parts of the country that were ravaged by ISIS a few years ago.
A special report on the water crisis in Iraq by Al Jazeera news agency mentioned the villages of Al-Ankur whose water reserves are running out.
The report says that 13,000 residents of this area are looking for a way to escape and leave it, but they have no way or means to escape.
Once a 140-square-kilometer body of water with a capacity of 3.3 billion cubic meters, Lake Habaniyeh in western Baghdad is rapidly drying up as the devastating water crisis spreads.
Iraq’s water problems, which are said to have arisen due to the decrease in the flow of the Euphrates River from Syria, have now reached a point where last week it was said that a well dug in one of the villages in this region could not reach water even after reaching a depth of 86 meters.
This has made the lives of local people dependent on plastic water bottles.
It should be mentioned that areas like Habaniyyah were originally built as water reservoirs and tourist cities in the early 1980s during Iraq’s financial development and prosperity.
