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Drought ravages Iraq's southern marshes

Video. Drought ravages Iraq's southern marshes

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Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran.

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