Iraq’s Water Wars examines one of the most urgent climate crises in the Middle East: Iraq’s struggle to survive as its rivers, marshes and farmland dry up. Once sustained by the Tigris and Euphrates, the country now faces rising temperatures, shrinking water supplies and a growing fight over who controls its most precious resource.
The film follows the human and environmental cost of this crisis, from farmers watching their land turn to dust to communities caught between upstream dams, government failure and the demands of the oil industry. It is a story about climate change, water justice and the fragile future of a country where environmental collapse is already reshaping daily life.
Made by journalist Simona Foltyn and filmmaker Eki Rrahmani, the film captures climate change not as a distant warning, but as a present-day crisis transforming lives, livelihoods and landscapes.
