Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · Nov 22 ... and, along with all its main tributaries, has been extensively dammed by successive Turkish governments. Take a look at this satellite image with border lines turned off and tell me where the border between Turkey and Syria lies:
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Syria has extensive an irrigation system itself, built with Soviet assistance during the '70s, but the restriction of this system's primarily fresh water source –the Euphrates– means it is now dry. Municipal supplies have become almost entirely reliant on wells and pumping stations such as Alouk...