The nation’s plan to control its most precious resource includes a controversial dam that will drown some of its history. The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River.

Iraqi engineers are warning that a dam which sits just above the bustling ... on the local population to move at least 6km from the river Tigris, was "ridiculous". The US embassy in Baghdad ...

Though he wants to travel the length of the river by boat, that becomes impossible due to political and physical obstacles. As he notes, “In less than thirty miles, the Tigris had already been cut, ...