{"id":2253,"date":"2021-08-18T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/rivers-the-essence-of-civilization-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:06:02","slug":"a-clean-and-sustainable-vision-for-basra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"A clean and sustainable vision for Basra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water management and environment experts from Germany and Iraq examine the city of Basra, once called the \u2018Venice of The Middle East\u2019 in the fifth and final chapter of our research book ‘Water is Life. Perspectives on Water in the Land of Two Streams’. They analyse what the current situation is like, why water scarcity and quality continue to be such a big problem as well as what are the reasons behind it. It unravels alarming statistics such as the fact that the oil industry in Basra consumes 5 times more water than the drinking water supply. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, it offers a set of concrete ideas on how to solve the issue: <\/span>fighting corruption and population growth, improving education and environmental awareness, introducing the concept of waste and waste-recycling, developing a holistic approach for the utilization of solar energy and water recycling, and developing architecture and infrastructure with green areas, urban farming, and rainwater harvesting.<\/p>\n

Iraq is a country in an arid climate where water scarcity is common. On the other hand, Mesopotamia is blessed by two rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, which made southern Iraq with its marshes the cradle of modern civilization. However, an extreme growth in population in the last 50 years, the reduction of headwaters of Euphrates and Tigris as a result of dams in Turkey, Syria, and Iran, and mismanagement are all factors that placed Basra and the whole
\ncountry in a critical situation.<\/p>\n

Download the chapter here<\/a>. <\/b>For the full book click here<\/a>. The book was produced within the framework of the project \u201c<\/span>Clean Tigris- Dialogue Programme for Sustainable Peace in Mesopotamia<\/span><\/a>\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The project is supported by the\u00a0ifa<\/a>\u00a0(Institut f\u00fcr Auslandsbeziehungen) programme \u201czivik\u201d, with funds from the\u00a0German Federal Foreign Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/i>\u00a0Our project manager Alisha Molter<\/a>\u00a0will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the project.<\/p>\n

Want to know more about Clean Tigris? Visit our website: www.cleantigris.com<\/a> or follow us on Instagram<\/a>, Youtube<\/a> and Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in participating in the programme, write us an email: cleantigris@elbarlament.org<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the fourth chapter of the research book Water is Life<\/a>, Iraqi-German archaeologist\u00a0Lanah Haddad writes about the role of water management throughout mythology and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}