General Union of Arab Peasants urges international community to pressure Turkey to implement the water agreements

The General Union of Arab Peasants and Agricultural Cooperatives called on the international community to put effective pressure on the Turkish government and oblige it to implement the water agreements signed with Syria and Iraq.

The federation said in a statement on Thursday that pursuant to the agreement, Syria should get at least 500 cubic meters of water per second, but, what Syria gets now is less than 50% of this quantity, denouncing the continuation of the water war policy.

In its statement, the federation indicated that the decrease in the water level of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers threatens a humanitarian catastrophe and has a significant impact on the agricultural sector, both in Syria and Iraq, where the lack of water had led many agricultural areas to be out of investment. The federation indicated that the Euphrates River recorded an unprecedented decline that prompted hundreds of families living on agriculture to migrate to other cities and regions.

The federation affirmed that the continued water cuts will cause a major disaster for the agricultural sector and for the residents of the region if the Turkish government continues to violate the water agreements signed with Syria and Iraq under the supervision of the United Nations. It also stressed that the impoundment of water threatens with humanitarian and natural disasters for more than 12 million people in both Syria and Iraq.

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