The Deanship of the College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra has always encouraged applied scientific research and found solutions to the problems that society suffers from. Accordingly, the Geography Department at the college has researched the causes of the deterioration of water resources in the Euphrates River and its natural and human repercussions.
The study aimed to show the extent of the deterioration that occurred in the waters of the Euphrates River and the effects of this deterioration on humans, their health, economic activity, migration, soil deterioration, agricultural production, and aquatic organisms.
The study presented by postgraduate student Hossam Abdel Karim Jassim Al-Hassani and Dr. Safaa Abdel-Amir Rashm Al-Asadi included an explanation of the deterioration that occurred in the amount of discharge due to hydrological projects established by neighboring countries on the river, and the resulting effects on human health, diseases and cases of poisoning to which the population and aquatic organisms are exposed, and the extinction of Fish and river plants as a result of the quantitative and qualitative change in the waters of the Euphrates River, and the relationship of this deterioration to soil and agriculture and the increase in migration as a result of the deterioration of the waters of the Euphrates River.
