Water scarcity in the Middle Euphrates region and its impact on the agricultural reality.

Abstract

     The issue of water and its scarcity in the world and Iraq is of great importance in the current years, because of the great importance of water in life and its various fields. The research aims to study the reality of water resources in the Middle Euphrates region, which depends on three main sources: precipitation, surface water represented by the Euphrates River and its branches, as well as groundwater. The study area suffers from a clear scarcity of water as a result of several reasons, including climate change, global warming, political tensions with Turkey, its non-compliance with international laws and treaties concluded with Iraq, the failure of agricultural reform policies and programs, and the excessive increase in population, which has greatly affected the agricultural reality after the decline The levels of the Euphrates River, on which agriculture mainly depends, posed a great threat to various agricultural crops.