Press Releases - Save the Tigris

This section lists all the statements, open letters and press releases published by Save the Tigris Campaign since 2012.

Statement: Building More Large Dams Threatens Southern Iraq and Increases Drought and Water Scarcity: No More False Solutions (15 April 2022)
Statement: Stop Water Wars! Do Not Weaponize Dams and Other Critical Infrastructure (30 March 2022)

Message from Save the Tigris on World Environment Day (5 June 2021)
Letter From Save the Tigris to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on Ashur, the Ahwar, and Makhoul Dam: Civil Society Concerns and Requests (20 May 2021)
Letter From Save the Tigris to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on Fourth State of Conservation Report by the State Party of Iraq on the Ahwar: Civil Society Concerns and Requests (4 May 2021)
Message from Humat Dijlah and Save the Tigris on World Water Day (22 March 2021)
Statement: Water Projects Threaten the Lesser Zab! (5 March 2021)

Announcement: Help to Raise £100.000 for Water Projects in Rojava! (19 May 2020)
Open Letter: Excavation, Documentation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Hasankeyf Must Continue (24 March 2020)
Letter from Save the Tigris to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Concerns and Requests regarding the Ahwar of Iraq (18 March 2020)

Call for the Immediate Release of Two Activists! (12 December 2019)
Statement: Water Must Not be Used as a Weapon of War: Refrain from Civilian and Environmental Harm in Northeast Syria! (12 October 2019)
Statement: Stop the Filling of Ilisu Dam! (29 July 2019)
Statement: A Message on Ilisu Dam from Iraqi Civil Society to the Turkish Government (10 July 2019)
Statement: UNESCO Should Address the Impacts of Upstream Dam Construction on the Ahwar of Iraq and Support Transboundary Water-Sharing Agreements (2 July 2019)
Declaration of the First Mesopotamian Water Forum: “Water is Under Assault in Mesopotamia” (17 April 2019)

Statement: Environmental Threats, Lack of Water, Poor Job Opportunities and Declining Social Benefits Produce Massive Protests in Southern Iraq (21 July 2018)
Announcement: Arab Co-ordination Group Established Within World Heritage Watch (11 July 2018)
Statement: UNESCO Needs to Recognize the Upstream Dam Threats to the Iraqi Marshes – We Call to Work With Independent Civil Society (23 June 2018)
Statement: Impoundment of Ilisu Dam Reservoir Has Not Yet Started – Drought in Iraq Has Other Reasons (12 June 2018)
Announcement: New Report addresses pollution of the Tigris River in Baghdad (5 April 2018)
Statement: Postponement of Ilisu Dam Reservoir is not a Success! (31 January 2018)

Statement: Equal Water Shares for the peoples of Iraq and Iran – A call for collaboration to preserve the shared rivers! (1 August 2017)
Statement: Protest against Bresser at its Dutch headquarters: Withdraw from relocation of Hasankeyf monuments (28 June 2017)
Statement: Fostering solidarity across borders to protect the shared rivers of Mesopotamia! (30 April 2017)

Statement: Save the Tigris, Euphrates and Marshes from climate change and unsustainable water policies: a message to the COP22 (19 November 2016)
Statement: New Report Highlights the Disastrous Impact of Daryan Dam on Iraq (28 October 2016)
Statement: Call for Collaboration on the Implementation of UNESCO Recommendations for the Iraqi Marshes (22 September 2016)
Statement: A Great Achievement After 4 years of Campaigning: The Marshes of Iraq Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage (20 July 2016)
Statement: Call for Action to Protect the Marshlands of Mesopotamia! (9 June 2016)

Statement: The Threat of Ilisu Dam and the Failure of the Iraqi Government to Protect Iraqi’s Right to Water (29 September 2015)
Announcement: Shadow Report on Ilisu Dam’s Impacts on Human Rights in Iraq, and the Iraqi Government’s Failure to Act (8 September 2015)
Statement: List Hasankeyf and The Iraqi Marshes Now! Stop Ilisu Dam from Destroying World Heritage (23 June 2015)
Open Letter to the Iraqi Government, the Kurdistan Regional Government from Save the Tigris Campaign (12 May 2015)
Statement: The Mosul Dam and the Italian Role. What are the Risks? (20 January 2015)

Statement: Water and its Infrastructure are not Weapons of War, Protect Civilians’ Right to Water in Iraq (15 July 2014)
Announcement: Policy Paper: Ilisu Dam and Legal Considerations in Iraq (2 April 2014)
Statement: Iraqi Marshes, Second Step towards the World Heritage (3 February 2014)

Press Kit of Save the Tigris at the 1st Iraqi Social Forum (26 September 2013)
Statement: International Activists meet in Baghdad to Discuss Legal Strategies to Protect the Tigris River (26 September 2013)
Statement: Include Ilisu dam on the Meeting Agenda with Turkish Opposition Leader (20 August 2013)
Statement: The World Heritage Committee will be meeting in Cambodia: Iraq is a member, but the Iraqi marshes are not in the agenda! (26 July 2013)
Open Letter to Andritz: disastrous impacts of Ilisu Dam for Iraq (24 March 2013)

Open Letter on the Impacts for Iraq of the Construction of the Ilisu Dam in Turkey (12 July 2012)
Announcement: The Tigris Declaration To Save Hasankeyf and Mesopotamian Marshes (28 May 2012)
Statement: Marsh Arabs Protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf (22 May 2012)