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  2. Euphrates - Wikipedia

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    In the Christian Bible, the Euphrates River is mentioned in Revelation 16:12, in the final book of the New Testament. Author, John of Patmos writes about the Euphrates river drying up as part of a series of events that foretell the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. [68] The river Phrath mentioned in Genesis 2:14 is also identified as the Euphrates ...

  3. Euphrates Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The Euphrates Tunnel was a legendary tunnel purportedly built under the river Euphrates to connect the two halves of the city of Babylon in Mesopotamia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first underwater tunnel known certainly to have been built was the Thames Tunnel , completed in 1841.

  4. Halabiye Dam - Wikipedia

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    The proposed location for the dam is the narrow gap in the Euphrates valley northwest of Deir ez-Zor that is created by basalt outcrops on the left and right river banks. It is expected that dry areas will be brought under cultivation with irrigation water provided by the dam. [1]

  5. Tigris–Euphrates river system - Wikipedia

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    The Tigris–Euphrates Basin is shared between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait. [6] [3] [4] [5] [7] Many tributaries of the Tigris river originate in Iran, and the Shatt al-Arab, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, makes up a portion of the Iran–Iraq border, with Kuwait's Bubiyan Island being part of its delta.

  6. List of cities and towns on the Euphrates River - Wikipedia

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    The upper reaches of the Euphrates flow through steep canyons and gorges, southeast across Syria, and through Iraq. From west to east, the Euphrates is in Syria joined by the Sajur, the Balikh and the Khabur. Lake Assad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River formed by the construction of the Tabqa Dam in 1973.

  7. U.S. is 'losing some of these smaller farms' amid historic ...

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    As rivers dry up and water deliveries are reduced, it has forced many producers to rely on groundwater. Despite efforts to keep groundwater withdrawals at sustainable levels, those reservoirs have ...

  8. Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes - Wikipedia

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    By 2008, 75% of the marshes had been restored, including most of the Central Marshes. However, the wetlands have since shrunk to 58% of their pre-drainage area and are projected to drop below 50% as a result of Turkish and Iranian damming of the Tigris and Euphrates, which the UN reports has reduced the combined volume of the rivers by 60%.

  9. List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia

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    The name was given because the sound slowly decreases in frequency over about seven minutes. It was recorded using an autonomous hydrophone array. [8] The sound has been picked up several times each year since 1997. [9] One of the hypotheses on the origin of the sound is moving ice in Antarctica. Sound spectrograms of vibrations caused by ...