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List Of Rivers Of Iraq
This is a list of rivers of Iraq. Persian Gulf *Shatt al-Arab **Euphrates ***Shatt al-Hayy or Gharraf Canal, distributary of the Tigris ***Wadi al-Khirr ***Wadi al-Ubayyid ***Wadi al-Ghadaf ***Lake Tharthar, Wadi Tharthar ***Wadi Hauran **Tigris ***Diyala River ***Khasa River ***'Adhaim ***Little Zab ***Great Zab ****Khazir River ***Khabur (Tigris), Khabur River ***Dujaila River Syrian Desert *Wadi al-Mirah *Wadi Hamir *Wadi Ar'ar *Wadi al Batin See also * List of dams and reservoirs in Iraq * Water supply and sanitation in Iraq References *Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993. {{Asia topic, List of rivers of Rivers of Iraq, * Lists of rivers by country, Iraq Lists of landforms of Iraq, Rivers Water in Iraq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Zab
The Great Zab or Upper Zab ( (''al-Zāb al-Kabīr''), or , , ''(zāba ʻalya)'') is an approximately long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq. It rises in Turkey near Lake Van and joins the Tigris in Iraq south of Mosul. The drainage basin of the Great Zab covers approximately , and during its course, the rivers collects the water from many tributaries. The river and its tributaries are primarily fed by rainfall and snowmelt – as a result of which discharge fluctuates highly throughout the year. At least six dams have been planned on the Great Zab and its tributaries, but construction of only one, the Bekhme Dam, has commenced but was halted after the Gulf War. The Zagros Mountains have been occupied since at least the Lower Palaeolithic, and Neanderthal occupation of the Great Zab basin has been testified at the archaeological site of Shanidar Cave. Historical records for the region are available from the end of the third millennium BCE onward. In the Neo-Assyrian per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Rivers By Country
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Rivers Of Iraq
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Supply And Sanitation In Iraq
Water supply and sanitation in Iraq is characterized by poor water and service quality. Three decades of war, combined with limited environmental awareness, have destroyed Iraq's water resources management system. Thus, Iraq faces difficulties to realize the target of 91% of households using safe drinking water supply by 2015. Currently, 16% of households report daily problems with supply and 20% use an unsafe drinking water source. Furthermore, animal waste and septic tanks pollute the drinking water network.(11) Water resources Euphrates and Tigris Iraq is fed by two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, both of which originate outside of Iraq. These two rivers account for 98% of Iraq's surface water supply.Barbooti, M.M., et al. Evaluation of Quality of Drinking Water from Baghdad, Iraq. Science World Journal. 2010. Their flow is therefore very vulnerable to dams and water diversions in Turkey, Syria, and Iran. The Euphrates does not receive water from permanent tributa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dams And Reservoirs In Iraq
The following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Iraq. They are sorted according to their location in either the Euphrates or the Tigris river basin. Dams in the Euphrates basin *Duban Regulator, on the Euphrates, regulating the flow of the Euphrates into Lake Habbaniyah * Fallujah Barrage, on the Euphrates *Haditha Dam, on the Euphrates, creating Lake Qadisiyah * Hindiya Barrage, on the Hindiya branch of the Euphrates * Ramadi Barrage, on the Euphrates *Warrar Regulator, on the Euphrates *Three dams in Wadi Hauran (Hussayniyah dam, Rutba dam, and the Hauran dam) Dams in the Tigris basin * Adhaim Dam, on the Adhaim River * Alwand Dam, on the Alwand River * Badush Dam (incomplete), on the Tigris * Bastora Dam (under construction), on the Bastora River * Bawanur Dam (under construction), on the Diyala River * Beduhe Dam, on the Beduhe River * Bekhme Dam (incomplete), on the Great Zab *Darbandikhan Dam, on the Diyala River * Deralok Dam (under construction), on the Great Zab * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadi Ar'ar
Wadi Arar also known as Wadi `Ar`ar and Wādī `Ar`ar is a wadi in the central part of the Northern Borders Region of Saudi Arabia. Wadi Arar starts about 125 km from Arar city, flows southwest to the northeast, past Arar city and merges with many Wadis and Sha’ibs, before crossing the Iraqi border. The Wadi is located between the Latitudes of 31°00’ N and 30°45’N and Longitudes 40°30’ E and 41°05’ E. The Wadi is one of the ''wadis of the tribe of ʿ Anizah'', which empty into the Euphrates valley in Iraq, and along with ''Wadi Al-Khurr'' is one of the largest of these wadi. It is located at an elevation of 568 meters above sea level. Along its course, the regional bedrock consists predominantly of Cretaceous limestone and sandstone with minor layers of dolomite and silt Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz. Silt may occur as a soil (often mixed with sand or clay) or as sediment mixed in su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadi Hamir
Wādī Ḩamīr ( ar, وادي حمير) is a wadi in Southern Iraq, nearby to the towns of Mukhāţ, Tall Mukhāţ, Nukhayb and Ar Raţţāwī. It lies just north of the Saudi Arabian border on the road from Baghdad to the Arar, Saudi Arabia Arar ( ar, عرعر ' ) is the capital of Northern Borders Province in Saudi Arabia. It has a population of 145,237 (2004 census). Arar is located in northern Saudi Arabia near the Iraqi border. It is known for its fertile pasture lands w ... oil fields. The Wadi is known to originate from Northern Saudi Arabia, an arid, hot desert climate where precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation.Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. References Geography of Saudi Arabia Hamir {{SaudiArabia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wadi Al-Mirah
Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Etymology The term ' is very widely found in Arabic toponyms. Some Spanish toponyms are derived from Andalusian Arabic where ' was used to mean a permanent river, for example: Guadalcanal from ''wādī al-qanāl'' ( ar, وَادِي الْقَنَال, "river of refreshment stalls"), Guadalajara from ''wādī al-ḥijārah'' ( ar, وَادِي الْحِجَارَة, "river of stones"), or Guadalquivir, from ''al-wādī al-kabīr'' ( ar, اَلْوَادِي الْكَبِير, "the great river"). General morphology and processes Wadis are located on gently sloping, nearly flat parts of deserts; commonly they begin on the distal portions of alluvial fans and extend to inland sabkhas or dry lakes. In basin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrian Desert
The Syrian Desert ( ar, بادية الشام ''Bādiyat Ash-Shām''), also known as the North Arabian Desert, the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, is a region of desert, semi-desert and steppe covering of the Middle East, including parts of southern Syria, eastern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, and western Iraq. It accounts for 85% of the land area of Jordan and 55% of Syria. To the south it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert. The land is open, rocky or gravelly desert pavement, cut with occasional wadis. Location and name The desert is bounded by the Orontes Valley and the volcanic field of Harrat al-Shamah to the west, and by the Euphrates to the east. In the north, the desert gives way to the more fertile areas and to the south it runs into the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. Some sources equate the Syrian Desert with the ''"Hamad Desert"'' while others limit the name ''Hamad'' to the southern central plateau. A few consider the Hamad to be the whole region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dujaila River
The Dujaila River ( ar, نهر الدجيلة), also called the Dujailah, Dujaili, Dujaylah or Nahr Shaţţ ad Dujaylah, is a river and irrigation canal in the Wasit Governorate of Iraq. The canal was created shortly after the Kut Barrage was created in 1943 as part of an agricultural project to convert the desert into fertile farmland. The canal starts at and ends at . Due the canal being a tributary of the Tigris, droughts on the Tigris have caused problems on the river. In February 2018, a drought struck the river, causing people to drill wells as well as buy water and transport it in tanks to get water. It also caused farmers to block roads and protest the government's negligence in developing water solutions. The canal is designed to irrigate 92,000 hectares of land. References Further reading Fisk, Brad (1952). " Dujaila: Iraq's Pilot Project for Land Settlement". ''Economic Geography''. 28 (4): 343–354. doi:10.2307/141972. ISSN An International Standard Serial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
