Reviving The Garden Of Eden

Monday, May 5, 2003 - 6:00am PDT by Abhijeet Chavan
Environment, United States
The destruction of the Mesopotamian Marshlands is considered one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

"[Sadam Hussein conducted] sophisticated campaign of water diversion and marsh drainage that has reduced roughly 93 percent of [Iraq's legendary] marshes to dry, salt-encrused wasteland...UNEP described it as one of the worst environmental disasters in history, ranking it with the desiccation of the Aral Sea and the deforestation of the Amazon rainforests."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Full Story: Iraq's Eden: Reviving the Legendary Marshes
Published on Saturday, May 3, 2003 in National Geographic

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