{"id":34328,"date":"2026-03-24T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/34328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:01:06","slug":"iraq-alerts-five-provinces-to-flood-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/34328\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq alerts five provinces to flood risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-03-24T18:35:19+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nBaghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Interior<br \/>\nMinistry on Tuesday warned residents in Wasit, Diyala, Al-Anbar, Kirkuk, and<br \/>\nSaladin provinces to stay away from low-lying areas due to the risk of flash<br \/>\nfloods.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the<br \/>\nministry confirmed that its security units, civil defense teams, and supporting<br \/>\nagencies are monitoring the situation on the ground and remain on high alert to<br \/>\nrespond to any emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes<br \/>\nas heavy spring rains <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Floods-isolate-villages-fill-dams-as-heavy-rains-sweep-Iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">affect<\/a> large parts of Iraq, triggering floods, disrupting<br \/>\ntransport routes, and placing pressure on water infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq faces its most<br \/>\nsevere water crisis in eight decades, with strategic reserves falling to their<br \/>\nlowest levels since the 1940s. More than 70% of Iraq\u2019s water originates outside<br \/>\nits borders, while the Euphrates has lost over 60% of its flow in the past two<br \/>\ndecades, and the Tigris continues to shrink, increasing pressure on drinking<br \/>\nsupplies, agriculture, and electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Drop-by-drop-Can-Iraq-avert-a-thirsty-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Drop by drop: Can Iraq avert a thirsty future?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-03-24T18:35:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq\u2019s Interior Ministry on Tuesday warned residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,15510,94,15508,15509],"class_list":{"0":"post-34328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-flood-risk","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-iraq-alerts-five-provinces-to-flood-risks","12":"tag-rainfalls"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116285702216067043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}