Nature Based Solutions to Big Dams Can Help the Mesopotamian Region and the World

Bonn, Germany – 11 November 2017
During a session of the COP23 on “Managing water scarcity for agriculture”, the Save the Tigris campaign posed a question to Mr. Olcay Ünver, the Deputy Director of Land and Water Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “Don’t you think that it’s time to state clearly that there is an urgent need to review water management policies in the Mesopotamian basin, particularly in relation to the building of big dams which have been proved to cause many serious problems for rivers systems, water resource sustainability, and climate change?”
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