Colorado River Drainage Basin Explained Published Feb 23, 2023 at 9:13 AM EST Updated Sep 21, 2023 at 5:45 PM EDT . By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is ...

The Euphrates River is located in the heart of the Middle East, and is one of the longest rivers in Western Asia. The Euphrates River is drying up because of global climate change and human impact, ...

The Euphrates provides around 85% of Syria’s renewable water, and the two rivers combined make up nearly 100% of Iraq’s supply. Ownership of the rivers’ basins is divided among Turkey, Syria ...

“The last time we planted the seed, it went green, then suddenly it died,” he said. The starkly different realities are playing out along the length of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, one of ...

Turkey has been harnessing the river basin with a massive project to boost agriculture and generate hydroelectricity, the Southeast Anatolia Project, or GAP by its Turkish acronym. It has built at ...

The Euphrates River is drying up because of global climate change and human impact, with decreased rainfall into the river basin. Warmer temperatures have also led to increased evaporation especially ...

Next year, his entire 4,500 acres will be watered via the Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates River. Lower water availability forced a revision in the area that GAP will irrigate, down to 1.05 million ...

Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality ...

DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) -- Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit's sprawling farm in Turkey's southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River.