Reviving The Garden Of Eden

The destruction of the Mesopotamian Marshlands is considered one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

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May 5, 2003, 6:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[Sadam Hussein conducted] sophisticated campaign of water diversion and marsh drainage that has reduced roughly 93 percent of [Iraq's legendary] marshes to dry, salt-encrused wasteland...UNEP described it as one of the worst environmental disasters in history, ranking it with the desiccation of the Aral Sea and the deforestation of the Amazon rainforests."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Iraq's Eden: Reviving the Legendary Marshes

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