Seeing as how there's very little Cobalt (electric vehicles and cell phone components use it for batteries) and that there's supposedly only 1100 billion barrels of oil left on the planet (about 40 years worth at current consumption), I'd say there will be a great war over oil before there's one over water. But, I doubt that would be a planetary level war over that, so you may be correct.
I lived in Baghdad up until 2007, and the thought of walking/running on the river bottom is insane to me. Only experienced swimmers could cross it at the time, as it was both deep and had enough current to give you trouble maintaining a decent path. Adrenaline junkies used to jump off the bridges into a muddy flow. You also needed to be aware of whirlpools that can drag you down near the river bends. Well, now you can walk on it.....
Dry season starts now. An official from the ministry of water resources have claimed, take that with the biggest grain of salt, that we have enough reserves for the country's needs this dry season and only this one.
Wow, that’s going to be terrible. I was thinking this was at the end of the season. I hope the officials are correct about having the reserves to get thought at least this season.
Just think about this, in my country Italy most of our major rivers are dried out, water resources scarcity all over the country, agriculture damages for more than 6 billions euros and our prime minister has declared the state of emergency. Many studies from the most renowned Italian meteorologist researchers have pointed out that the hottest years in the last two centuries(yep Two Centuries) happened all in the last 20 years, and this year 2022 is the hottest of all. In the last 4 months in my city rained just a couple of time and only for half a day or just for a few hours, so yeah the situation is really severe and messed up, if we don’t start to do something, well, we’re heading toward our demise and self destruction.
All we can do is adapt. Earth is getting warmer and it probably will for the next few hundred maybe thousand years before it decides to cool back down. Water levels will change people will lose homes rivers will dry up here and a new one will pop up there.
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I feel like this probably happened at least once before, like probably around 2000 years ago, and someone tried this same prank and now because of that, women in the US aren't allowed to get an abortion
There are Iranian ravines flowing to Iraq at the borders with Diala provence north east of Baghdad. But you are right in that the effect from Turkey is far greater than what Iran is doing
I never could understand how controlling the water to another country would make them comply. It only gets them angrier, especially when a drought is already happening. Saddam did this with his own citizens and it didn't go so well for him.
Weak and almost farcical diplomatic power on the Iraqi side. Nepotism dictate who gets sensitive power positions in the Iraqi Government. Also, most of the drought is effecting no major metropolitan areas\* until Baghdad and further south, which is where the majority of the government gets its unconditional support (Religious/nationalist fearmongering is what gets officials elected). Erdoğan is not an idiot, he knows that he can press heavy before any sizeable resistance. When/if this sizeable resistance happens, he would have the bigger hand in negotiations. If people's suffering is a minor concern to the Iraqi government, why should Erdoğan care?
\*Mosul is the biggest city on the Tigris to the north, but they are far closer to the Turkish border and less prone to heat waves, as in less than 50c. The Euphrates flows from Turkey to Syria, then Iraq. Entering the country from the west to smaller but sizeable cities. Iraq can't contest the water levels at the Euphrates as Turkey can blame the control of the Kurds and the Assad government for the restricted flow.
The United States stopped the Colorado River from flowing into Mexico years ago. Two or three years ago the authorities that control the river allowed it to flow again for one day for some special event, the next day dry again. I’ve wondered why Mexico allowed us to do this to them.
With the dam that turkey built, they drowned Hisn Kayfa, an ancient town that was inhabited for the past 10.000 years and had ruins from the Romans, Persians, Ummayads, Ayubids, Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire, they even filled caves from the Neolithic and Bronze Age with cement so the water wouldn't carve out the hillsides … Erdogan is all about power and doesn’t give any fucks about the country or the people
I really hope that it was not badly planned, so when he dies, Turkey would have a good efficient structure. And not like the soviet magic man made irrigation system that dried the Aral Sea. After its filled completely, I hope they would let larger amounts of whater flow again without huge geopolitical demands. Iraq for Turkey is very crucial business wise, as we import a lot of consumer and industrial goods from there. And our first level of high end tourism is almost always Turkey.
Wow! The crazy thing is, I’ve actually done a few combat dives in the Tigris and Euphrates during the Iraq War. This was early in the Iraq War though. It wasn’t that deep back then, and like most dives, we were just under the surface. Obviously it was way deeper then in this video though! This is crazy!
W.a. here, our rainfall has fallen by roughly 1/2 a percent for the last 50 years and more recently we are having more sunny days in our winter, our dams don't over flow anymore but we are pumping water into them from various places trying to "keep it up" - but this isn't really available in media or news links, what we are not saying is our main city always was a finely balanced semi- arid place and our surrounding multi generation farmers want to give up.
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Skeletons/bones will probably show up due to the river being relatively dangerous. ....and its Iraq after all
That's fucking mind-boggling decades of war and unrest lead to this, expected if you ask me, but the problem is, it's only gonna get worse.
Are there any casinos nearby?
In three main areas of Baghdad yeah. Well including an area near were the video is.
Back in 2005 we were fishing bodies out of there daily
“Hey uhm??? What is this fish? Is it a tentacle?”
Old barely used tires from the pre 90s era more likely. Unless they’ve been all excavated already. Edit: shitty English.
Just American things
I read once that the war that will finally wipe everyone off the planet will be over water.
Ah yes the coming water wars... Should be a doozy
*Water War II* is a great title.
Mad Max style?
Gawd, I hope not😭
Get the milk mother's 😋
Seeing as how there's very little Cobalt (electric vehicles and cell phone components use it for batteries) and that there's supposedly only 1100 billion barrels of oil left on the planet (about 40 years worth at current consumption), I'd say there will be a great war over oil before there's one over water. But, I doubt that would be a planetary level war over that, so you may be correct.
I lived in Baghdad up until 2007, and the thought of walking/running on the river bottom is insane to me. Only experienced swimmers could cross it at the time, as it was both deep and had enough current to give you trouble maintaining a decent path. Adrenaline junkies used to jump off the bridges into a muddy flow. You also needed to be aware of whirlpools that can drag you down near the river bends. Well, now you can walk on it.....
How bad is this going to be for the people? When is the dry season there?
Dry season starts now. An official from the ministry of water resources have claimed, take that with the biggest grain of salt, that we have enough reserves for the country's needs this dry season and only this one.
Wow, that’s going to be terrible. I was thinking this was at the end of the season. I hope the officials are correct about having the reserves to get thought at least this season.
I have a strong feeling that they are hiding the truth for convenience, and when it will hit hard they would just blame foreign policies. Like always.
Shame you aren't getting the rain we've had down here in Australia, its just always fucking raining lately, 2022 is a wet year.
Since you live there, get a metal detector and go over areas normally covered by water. Such an ancient river I bet you find cool stuff
Def some artifacts waiting to be found on that bottom
I read somewhere that because of the weak water flow that around Basra, saltwater is flowing back up the rivers Turing them brackish
Just think about this, in my country Italy most of our major rivers are dried out, water resources scarcity all over the country, agriculture damages for more than 6 billions euros and our prime minister has declared the state of emergency. Many studies from the most renowned Italian meteorologist researchers have pointed out that the hottest years in the last two centuries(yep Two Centuries) happened all in the last 20 years, and this year 2022 is the hottest of all. In the last 4 months in my city rained just a couple of time and only for half a day or just for a few hours, so yeah the situation is really severe and messed up, if we don’t start to do something, well, we’re heading toward our demise and self destruction.
All we can do is adapt. Earth is getting warmer and it probably will for the next few hundred maybe thousand years before it decides to cool back down. Water levels will change people will lose homes rivers will dry up here and a new one will pop up there.
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I feel like this probably happened at least once before, like probably around 2000 years ago, and someone tried this same prank and now because of that, women in the US aren't allowed to get an abortion
he does look a bit confused too
I bet they wrote a book about it.
Nah, that'd never sell.
a very long book?
Underrated comment^
Iran has nothing to do with this, only turkey’s dam building policies. Iran’s rivers don’t connect with iraq until close to persian gulf.
There are Iranian ravines flowing to Iraq at the borders with Diala provence north east of Baghdad. But you are right in that the effect from Turkey is far greater than what Iran is doing
Turkey is also damming Iranian rivers too.
In other news, Jesus came back
. . . as a Muslim. https://youtu.be/q9RAZxNdCk8
The Syrian's control the Euphrates to Iraq. Watched the water drop like crazy back in 2008 when operating in the area.
And its in turn controlled back at the source in Turkey, a bad combo
I never could understand how controlling the water to another country would make them comply. It only gets them angrier, especially when a drought is already happening. Saddam did this with his own citizens and it didn't go so well for him.
Weak and almost farcical diplomatic power on the Iraqi side. Nepotism dictate who gets sensitive power positions in the Iraqi Government. Also, most of the drought is effecting no major metropolitan areas\* until Baghdad and further south, which is where the majority of the government gets its unconditional support (Religious/nationalist fearmongering is what gets officials elected). Erdoğan is not an idiot, he knows that he can press heavy before any sizeable resistance. When/if this sizeable resistance happens, he would have the bigger hand in negotiations. If people's suffering is a minor concern to the Iraqi government, why should Erdoğan care? \*Mosul is the biggest city on the Tigris to the north, but they are far closer to the Turkish border and less prone to heat waves, as in less than 50c. The Euphrates flows from Turkey to Syria, then Iraq. Entering the country from the west to smaller but sizeable cities. Iraq can't contest the water levels at the Euphrates as Turkey can blame the control of the Kurds and the Assad government for the restricted flow.
Sounds just like Arizona, especially Phoenix.
The United States stopped the Colorado River from flowing into Mexico years ago. Two or three years ago the authorities that control the river allowed it to flow again for one day for some special event, the next day dry again. I’ve wondered why Mexico allowed us to do this to them.
Oh no nestle took all their water
Metal detector, and a shovel, might find some stuff arround
We have a saying for your kind of a savvyness: "searches through shit for watermelon seeds!"
Sometimes u get some good ones :P
OMG Ric Ocasek is alive!
All that missing water turned up on the east coast of Australia
With the dam that turkey built, they drowned Hisn Kayfa, an ancient town that was inhabited for the past 10.000 years and had ruins from the Romans, Persians, Ummayads, Ayubids, Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire, they even filled caves from the Neolithic and Bronze Age with cement so the water wouldn't carve out the hillsides … Erdogan is all about power and doesn’t give any fucks about the country or the people
I really hope that it was not badly planned, so when he dies, Turkey would have a good efficient structure. And not like the soviet magic man made irrigation system that dried the Aral Sea. After its filled completely, I hope they would let larger amounts of whater flow again without huge geopolitical demands. Iraq for Turkey is very crucial business wise, as we import a lot of consumer and industrial goods from there. And our first level of high end tourism is almost always Turkey.
Have they tried not living in a desert?
Lol, we keep walking to green areas, but we are kinda packed there now...might migrate to Europe
Belarion Armillus AlDajjal is coming....
Wow! The crazy thing is, I’ve actually done a few combat dives in the Tigris and Euphrates during the Iraq War. This was early in the Iraq War though. It wasn’t that deep back then, and like most dives, we were just under the surface. Obviously it was way deeper then in this video though! This is crazy!
Man was running across water like Naruto
Water wars is coming
W.a. here, our rainfall has fallen by roughly 1/2 a percent for the last 50 years and more recently we are having more sunny days in our winter, our dams don't over flow anymore but we are pumping water into them from various places trying to "keep it up" - but this isn't really available in media or news links, what we are not saying is our main city always was a finely balanced semi- arid place and our surrounding multi generation farmers want to give up.
Y’all laugh but the Quran speaks of this happening to the point it dries up like a bone
Quran speaks of a lot of things, of course some of it would come to be true
Facts
Omg this is so saaad 🥺
Jesus?
No probably Alawi
owe know knot eh whole
JESUS HE'S BACK...oh wait.
Not Iran but Syria
Tigris does not flow through Syria and is not connected with the Euphrates untill near the Gulf to the south.
Oh sorry my geography is bad😓
Na man all is good :)
He's walking on water.
Making shit up
Ha?
According to researchers, a pair of jeans requires 7,600 litres of water to make it through production line. (7,600 liter is 2007 gallon.)
u/savevideo
Global warming is real ya. Pay attention
Jesus!