Basra, Iraq, Oct 17, 2025 (AFP) - Water salinity hurting farmers, livestock in Iraq

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2025-10-17

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......

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