Toward a Secure and Sustainable Water Future for Kurdistan and Iraq

May 18, 2014 | Tessa Manuello
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As tensions between Erbil and Baghdad resumed earlier this year, some voices in the Kurdistan Region called for waging a “water war” against the central government by blocking Kurdish rivers that water Iraqi farms.

Water wars are a possibility. But there are many examples of cooperation showing that water wars are the exception. Countries sharing water resources find ways of cooperating.

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