Farmers along the Shatt al-Arab waterway not only suffer daily difficulties related to a lack of electricity and general supplies, but now salt water is flowing into the waterways making the water unusable for agricultural purposes.
As the level of fresh water flowing into the Shatt al-Arab from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers has declined, salt water from the Persian Gulf has increasingly poured in.
Three months ago several municipal councils in the Faw villages (90 km from the centre of …
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