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🌊 How do you strangle 28 million people without firing a single shot? Control their water.

Turkey's 22-dam network across the Tigris and Euphrates rivers has reduced water flow to Iraq by 40% and Syria by 35% since 2000. The result: agricultural collapse, mass displacement, dying ecosystems, and the slow-motion death of Mesopotamia—the birthplace of human civilization.

This isn't a future threat. It's happening right now, in 2025.

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🔑 KEY FACTS

• Tigris flow at Iraq border: 230 m³/s (down from 1,200 m³/s)
• Syria receives 200 m³/s (guaranteed 500 m³/s by 1987 treaty)
• 1.2 million rural Iraqis forced into cities
• Agricultural productivity declined 58% in 5 years
• 5 million Syrians depend on failing Euphrates
• Summer 2021: Turkey cut flow 50% during drought
• Mesopotamian Marshes lost 90% of area
• Climate change will reduce rainfall 15-20% by 2040
• Turkey refuses to ratify UN water sharing convention

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📚 SOURCES & RESEARCH

Iraq Ministry of Water Resources (2024)
IPCC Climate Projections (2023)
International Organization for Migration Reports (2024)
UN Convention on International Watercourses (1997)
Turkey-Syria Protocol (1987)
Satellite imagery: Landsat/Sentinel-2 (2000-2024)
Academic research: University of Baghdad, Stockholm International Water Institute
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🌍 WHY THIS MATTERS

This is the blueprint for future resource conflicts:
✓ Upstream nation controls infrastructure
✓ Downstream nations have no legal recourse
✓ Climate change amplifies scarcity
✓ 28 million people powerless to stop it

Geography determines who controls resources—and who suffers without them.

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📢 TAKE ACTION

Learn more about water security:
→ WaterAid: https://www.wateraid.org
→ International Water Management Institute: https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org
→ UN Water: https://www.unwater.org
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DISCLAIMER: This video presents documented facts about transboundary water management. All data is sourced from official government reports, UN agencies, academic research, and satellite imagery. The goal is education and awareness, not political advocacy.