wn.com - 2 days ago

BASRA: Iraqi farmer Umm Ali has watched her poultry die as salinity levels in the country s south hit record highs, rendering already scarce water unfit for human consumption and killing livestock. We used to drink, wash and cook with water from the river, but now it s hurting us, said Umm Ali, 40, who lives in the once watery Al-Mashab marshes of southern Iraq s Basra province.This season alone, she said brackish water has killed dozens of her ducks and 15 chickens. I cried and grieved, I felt as if all my hard work had been wasted, said the widowed mother of three.Iraq, a country heavily impacted by climate change,...

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