SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - Springs and wells are drying up across Sulaimani province. Locals say it's a disaster unlike anything they’ve seen before.
“I was born in 1952. I have never seen this springhead in this way. I have always been here, except during the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war,” said Fatih Salim, who owns holiday cottages at Awesar resort in Hawraman, southern Sulaimani province.
This winter and spring saw lower than average snow and rainfall. Drought-like conditions are exacerbated by poor management of water resources and dams built in neighbouring Iran.
Translation by Zhelwan Zeyad Wali
Video editing by Sarkawt Mohammed
