Disaster looms in Syria as Euphrates dwindles
Experts warn of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in northeast Syria, where waning river flow is rapidly waning.
Aid groups and engineers are warning of a looming humanitarian disaster
in northeast Syria, where plummeting water levels at hydroelectric dams since
January are threatening water and power supply for millions amid the
coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis.
Syria’s longest river used to flow by his olive
grove, but Khaled al-Khamees says it has now receded into the distance,
parching his trees and leaving his family with hardly a drop to drink.
“It’s as if we were in the desert,” said the
50-year-old farmer, standing on what last year was the Euphrates riverbed.
“We’re thinking of leaving because there’s no water
left to drink or irrigate the trees.” Aid groups and engineers are warning of a
looming humanitarian disaster in northeast.
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