What Happens to Water at the End of the Tigris and Euphrates: Water sustains oil fields while Basra runs dry.
By Abdullah Al-Sa’ad for Jummar Media.
As Basra’s water crisis deepens, large volumes of water are being diverted to Iraq’s oil fields for reservoir injection. This investigation examines how oil production drains resources from people and farmland in one of the country’s most water-stressed regions.
At the far end of the Tigris and Euphrates, where the two rivers meet and merge into the Shatt Al-Arab river, a farmer from Al-Qurna district stands on land cracked so deeply it now resembles the desert. He looks toward the palm trees that sustained his city for generations, then says:
“The water is being taken from us,” he says, “and buried underground.”
