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Syria’s Water Crisis: A Threat Looking for Solution
Syria is facing the most severe water crisis in modern history. All of Syria’s provinces have suffered, albeit to varying degrees, and it has had impacts on the majority of Syrians if not all of them.
Six people have been confirmed dead after a school bus veered off the road into a river in northwest Syria. The incident occurred near Darkush, west of Idlib, ...
IDLIB, Syria -- The Orontes River in northwestern Syria has long been a lifeline for farmers, including 50-year-old Bahjat al-Bakru, who have used it to irrigate their nearby crops. But since the ...
Syria fishermen despair at water loss, river pollution. Tabqa Dam (Syria) (AFP) – Around war-torn Syria's biggest freshwater dam reservoir, fishermen say their catch is now a fraction of what it ...
DARKUSH, Syria (AP) — At least seven people drowned and 20 were injured, most of them children, when a school bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in northwestern Syria on Thursday ...
The area has been deeply affected by Syria's ongoing civil war, now in its 14th year. Most residents in the opposition-held northwest have been displaced multiple times, relying on aid to survive.
Settlements housing displaced people near the Orontes River in northwest Syria were inundated after water levels rose on the river and flooded fields and homes in [an area already battered by ...
RAQA, Syria - Around war-torn Syria's biggest freshwater dam reservoir, fishermen say their catch is now a fraction of what it used to be as environmental pressures have decimated aquatic life ...
By OMAR ALBAM Associated Press DARKUSH, Syria (AP) — At least seven people have drowned after a school bus in northwest Syria skidded off the road and plunged into a river. Twenty people were ...