The impact of Turkey’s water resources development on the flow regime of the Tigris River in Iraq

Study region: Once, the Tigris River (with its twin, the Euphrates) was the remarkable river in the west of Asia, making Mesopotamia a cradle of civilization thousands of years ago. Upstream anthropogenic activity has choked the Tigris River, the connecting lifeline across Iraq, and, due to droughts...

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Main Authors: Ali Torabi Haghighi, Mahdi Akbari, Roohollah Noori, Ali Danandeh Mehr, Alireza Gohari, Mehmet Emin Sönmez, Nizar Abou Zaki, Nese Yilmaz, Bjørn Kløve
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-08-01
Series:Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581823001416