"There is no fruition and no result from this work. Because as you see, everything is now full of salt because of water scarcity and its pollution. These ponds cost us a lot of time, money and efforts ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Along the Iraqi banks of the Euphrates river, one question dominates the conversation. What killed the fish? Thousands of tonnes of freshwater carp have washed up dead this month, ...

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of their livelihoods.

This aerial view shows a man inspecting dead fish during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh — Qassem al-KAABI Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern ...

Water supply in Iraq, which the UN ranks as one of the five countries most impacted by some effects of climate change, is in a dire state — Ahmad AL-RUBAYE Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the ...

Poisoned water, illegal dams and even armed clashes: these days, fishing for precious barbels in Iraq's majestic river marshes involves navigating precarious waters. For centuries, civilisations in ...

Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren earth where his fish farm once stood, lost to water conservation efforts during a devastating four-year drought. Drastic government measures ...