Loading ...Water Crisis Salts the Earth in Iraq’s Long-Neglected South
SOURCE: HERALD-WHIG BY: SINAN SALLAHEDIN BAGHDAD (AP) — Qassim Sabaan Ali has spent the past 15 years tending to orchards in southern Iraq, only to see them wither or die as saltwater has seeped into the once-lush soil. The southern city of Basra was once known as the “Venice of the East” because of its … Continued