View of a breached dam. During the 1990s Saddam Hussein built barrages to reduce the water flow from the Euphrates river into the Marshes, in 2003 the local Marsh Arabs breached the dams to re-flood the Marshes. Climate change, dam building in Turkey and internal water mismanagement are the main causes of a severe drought in the southern wetlands of Iraq.

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