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Draining of the Qurna Marshes
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Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
The
draining of the
Mesopotamian Marshes
occurred in
Iraq
and to a smaller degree in
Iran
between the 1950s and 1990s to clear large areas of the
marshes
in the
Tigris-Euphrates river system
. Formerly covering an area of around , the main sub-marshes, the
Hawizeh
,
Central
, and
Hammar Marshes
and all three were drained at different times for different reasons.
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