Iraq: Iraq’s Vast Marshes, Reborn after Saddam, Are in Peril Again

Oct 26, 2017 | Susannah George and Sam McNeil, Associated Press
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The southern marshlands of Iraq, a lush remnant of the cradle of civilization , were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents dismantled dams he had built a decade earlier to drain the area in order root out Shiite rebels. But now the largest wetlands in the Middle East are imperiled again, by government mismanagement and new upstream projects.