The department of earth science, in collaboration with the continuing education unit at the University of Baghdad, has organized a scientific symposium entitled “The impact of climate change and dust storms on the climate of Iraq” in the presence of the dean of the college, Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim al-Qazzaz and a number of students, professors and those concerned with geographical, agricultural, environmental and water resources.
The lecturers aimed to identify climate change and its impact on life due to low rainfall and drought facing our country, besides other factors that adversely affect the atmosphere and provoke sand or dust storms which are caused by strong winds that carry large amounts of sand and dust from dry soil, affecting human health and environment as a whole. They also stated that climate change plays a major role in water scarcity in Iraq, revealing a decline of less than a third of rainfall average compared to winter (2017-2018), indicating that the current water crisis in Iraq and its human and environmental consequences in the Middle East and North Africa are among the most vulnerable areas to the potential impacts of climate change and stressing the need to adopt an urgent international, local and regional policy to address the geological soils causing rising dust and reduce gas emissions that require solutions immediately.
Present Water Crises in Iraq and Its Human and Environmental Implications
