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The River Too Tells the Story in Iraq

Dahr Jamail

by Dahr Jamail
February 12th, 2009 | Inter Press Service

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BAGHDAD, Feb 12 (IPS) – There is less water now in the Tigris, and it is less clean. The river has fewer fish, and rising fuel and other costs mean they are more costly to catch. It’s not, as Hamza Majit finds, a good time to be a fisher.

“It’s getting worse everyday,” Majit told IPS on board his fishing boat.

“You see the low…

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