![]() ![]() ![]() Assuredly, Wildcats and hyenas shall dwell, And ostriches shall dwell there It shall never be settled again, Nor inhabited throughout the ages. The prophet Jeremiah described how the waters of Babylon, the region currently including Syria and Iraq, would dry up as a punishment for their idolatrous practices, the devastation being so complete as to render the region, once part of the so-called ‘fertile crescent’, uninhabitable.Ī drought against its waters, that they be dried up! For it is a land of idols They are besotted by their dread images. On that day Hashem made a covenant with Avram, saying, “To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: Genesis 15:18 It was also named as one of the borders of the land God granted to Abraham’s descendants. The name of the third river is Tigris, the one that flows east of Assyria. The Euphrates figures prominently in the Bible with it being described as bordering the Garden of Eden. The Kurdish authorities are accusing the Turkish government of withholding water for political purposes. Turkey has seized land in Syria from the Kurds in order to decrease their influence on the border region. Much of the path of the Euphrates inside Syria lies inside the northeastern region of the country which is controlled by the semi-independent Kurds which Turkey considers to be a terrorist organization. Some experts believe that Turkey is using the water crisis to exert a political agenda. In recent months, that amount has dropped to as little as 200 cubic meters per second. The sources of the river lie in Turkey and an agreement between the two countries in 1987 allowed an annual average of 500 cubic meters per second of water to cross into Syria. ![]() The water level at the Tishrin Dam, the first into which the river falls inside Syria, has dropped five meters and is currently about ten centimeters above “dead level” when the turbines stop producing electricity. Two dams in northern Syria face imminent closure which would leave about three million people without any access to electricity. The 1,700 mile-long Euphrates is the main source of drinking water as well as powering three hydroelectric plants that produce electricity for about three million people in Syria. ![]()
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