Shatt al-Arab - Iraq.
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 10:48AM Basrah and the Shatt al-Arab River in Iraq are threatened by decreasing flows in the Tigris Euphrates Rivers, pollution, and increasingly climate change. The salt wedge from the Gulf is reaching the city of Basrah which has serious consequences for water quality and environmental stability for the people and environment of the region. Solutions to this problem are few. Increased flows from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers would flush out the salt wedge, but future projections of discharge rates show decreases in water. Other solutions being explored are the construction of hydrologic structures, but this is expensive and complex due to marine traffic, flat topography, and geopolitical issues with Iran.
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The environmental crisis in the Shatt al-Arab river is also due to the massive damming of the Karun river (in Iran), which used to be the Shatt al-Arab river's main affluent in its southern part.