The nation’s plan to control its most precious resource includes a controversial dam that will drown some of its history. The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River.

Images & Stories / Alamy The waters of the Tigris River gave rise to the first settlements ... the massive hydroelectric Ilisu Dam is expected to be completed in 2013. The reservoir created ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates ... of the Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. All of these measures come together ...

Though he wants to travel the length of the river by boat, that becomes impossible due to political and physical obstacles. As he notes, “In less than thirty miles, the Tigris had already been cut, ...

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