Water levels plummet at drought-hit Iraqi reservoir | AFP

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Water levels at Iraq's vast Dukan Dam reservoir have plummeted as a result of dwindling rains and further damming upstream, hitting millions of inhabitants already impacted by drought with stricter water rationing. Amid these conditions, visible cracks have emerged in the retreating shoreline of the artificial lake, which lies in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region and was created in the 1950s. Iraq has been intensely impacted by the effects of climate change, experiencing rising temperatures, year‑on‑year droughts and rampant desertification.

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 1

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Now we have in the reservoir or in the lake about 24%.

If it's compared to the last year or previous year, we have about 30% below last year.

The main reason is the shortage of rainfall and the second reason is that dams constructed across the Lesar-Zab River in the neighboring countries.

So these two reasons lead us to this low level in this year.

When we have a full level, we can generate about 400 megahertz.

Just now, we are generating just about 40 megahertz.

So it is negatively affected because the generating power, it depends on the water, what we have on the reserve.

Speaker 2

This year was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

Speaker 3

It was a very good year.

It was a very good year.

It was very bad.

We didn't have a river to go to.

We didn't have a river to go to.

We only had a river to go to.

We only had a river to go to.

We only had a river to go to.

It was a very big river.

This place is called Peuznaka.

If you want to go there, you have to take a train.

This place is about 2.5 meters away from where we are now.

Speaker 2

We don't have to worry about the future.

We don't have to worry about the future.