{"id":95960,"date":"2026-05-03T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:08:09","slug":"al-azim-dam-hits-full-capacity-in-iraqs-diyala-after-months-of-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95960\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Azim Dam hits full capacity in Iraq\u2019s Diyala after months of drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-03T17:50:02+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- Diyala<\/p>\n<p>Al-Azim Dam in Diyala province has reached full capacity<br \/>\n\u2014estimated at 1.6 billion cubic meters\u2014 following recent heavy rainfall and<br \/>\nfloods, a local official told Shafaq News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nabil Al-Obeidi, director of Al-Azim subdistrict, urged<br \/>\nauthorities to preserve the dam\u2019s water reserves and reduce discharge levels to<br \/>\nsecure supply during peak summer drought. He warned that continued releases,<br \/>\ncurrently at 15 cubic meters per second into the Al-Azim River, could lead to<br \/>\nunnecessary losses, especially as the area lacks a significant agricultural<br \/>\nplan beyond limited sprinkler irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, the dam completely <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraqi-dam-dries-up-completely-after-15-day-water-cutoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dried up<\/a>, leaving only 9<br \/>\nmeters of polluted, unusable water.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq has faced a worsening drought in recent years, driven<br \/>\nby climate change, declining rainfall, and reduced water flows from upstream<br \/>\ncountries, including Turkiye and Iran, cutting farmland, accelerating<br \/>\ndesertification, and undermining food security, particularly in rural areas. At<br \/>\nthe same time, water levels in dams and reservoirs have fallen below safe<br \/>\nthresholds, prompting the Ministry of Water Resources to prioritize supplies<br \/>\nfor drinking and limited horticulture amid the absence of a comprehensive summer<br \/>\nagricultural plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraq-s-water-crisis-A-structural-rewrite-of-agricultural-governance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq\u2019s water crisis: A structural rewrite of agricultural governance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-03T17:50:02+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Diyala Al-Azim Dam in Diyala province has reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33761,33760,152,18493,94,5533],"class_list":{"0":"post-95960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-al-azim-dam","9":"tag-al-azim-dam-hits-full-capacity-in-iraqs-diyala-after-months-of-drought","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-diyala","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116511985114801797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95960","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=95960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}