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Transnational Water Issues in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq: Planning and Investing for the Future

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dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Collin
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-05T20:56:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-14T14:32:42Z
dc.date.available2016-06-05T20:56:58Z
dc.date.available2021-04-14T14:32:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description© 2016, The Journal of Global Affairs is the official student research publication of the Department of International and Area Studies in the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Correspondence may be sent to: Journal of Global Affairs, C/O CIS/DIAS, 729 Elm Avenue, Hester Hall 150, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States of America. Email: jga@ou.edu.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe connection between access to clean and reliable water and social unrest is a relationship that is beginning to be fully understood. The Euphrates River provides drinking water for nearly 27 million people, water for irrigation, and hydroelectric power for millions of people in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Due to reduced rainfall and increased temperature, combined with overuse, the amount of water running through the Euphrates River has reached a new low point in recent decades. This phenomenon is a serious threat to peace and stability. Turkey, the upstream country, is heavily reliant on the Euphrates for drinking water, irrigation water, and for producing hydroelectricity. Water infrastructure and management in Syria has been degraded due to conflict. Before the war, water resources were managed poorly, which led to political unrest due to loss of livelihoods and urban migration. Agriculture in Iraq has been devastated due to reduced water flow and poor water management practices. Iraq receives roughly 98 percent of its water resources from the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, and Iraq has seen its share of river flow plummet in recent years. There exists no trilateral agreement between all riparian states dealing with the Euphrates. There have been several bilateral agreements regulating flow, but these have often been ignored, or are impossible to enforce. The necessary measures needed to create sustainable practices regarding the river cannot be taken without an enforceable trilateral agreement.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Journal of Global Affairs is published in conjunction with the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma.en_US
dc.description.undergraduateundergraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/78
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Journal of Global Affairs;Volume V
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectSyriaen_US
dc.subjectIraqen_US
dc.subjectTigris-Euphrates River Basinen_US
dc.subjectWater Resourcesen_US
dc.titleTransnational Water Issues in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq: Planning and Investing for the Futureen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Multi-Agency Policy Paper to Establish the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin Commissionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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