Lake Habbaniyah was a tourist hotspot not so long ago but its shoreline have receded by several dozen metres after four consecutive years of drought.
The United Nations ranks water-stressed Iraq as one of five countries most impacted by some effects of climate change. Photo: AFP
He laid out inflatable water floats, nets and shirts in front of his lakeside shop, but expected few if any customers. The United Nations ranks water-stressed Iraq as one of the five countries most impacted by some effects of climate change. Declining rainfall over the past four years and rising temperatures have hit Habbaniyah -- alongside much of the rest of the country -- hard.
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