Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

Gezira University's Investment Department Director, Dr. Abu Bakr Mohamed, met with Sudan Future Organization representatives to advance the implementation of buried pipe irrigation technology.Dr.

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

The Amazon is the most powerful river in the world. With an average discharge of over 209,000 m³/s, it pours 20% of all global freshwater into the ocean. Learn about its massive 6,400 km length and 7 ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

For more than a century, the standard story has held that Sumerian cities rose only after powerful rulers dug vast canal networks between the Tigris and Euphrates. Those canals unlocked large-scale ...

Abstract: Irrigation system optimization is of utmost importance for sustainable agriculture in light of the growing worldwide water shortage caused by climate change and rising agricultural needs. In ...

Abstract: The water crisis, global warming and climate changes have become recently prominent world issues. Saving and conserving water have become, therefore, an imperative for water resources’ ...

When Kevin Haggerty drives around the farms south of Bozeman, he sees more than just the dense development and traffic. He sees the area where his mother was born in a cabin, fields his ancestors ...