Posted on 09/23/2021 1:29:03 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The humanitarian crisis caused by the decade-long civil war in Syria is worsening as the Euphrates River, the longest river of Western Asia, is drying up.
According to one rabbi, this is the realization of a prophecy from the Book of Jeremiah.
The Euphrates River
Originating in Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. This year, rainfall in southern Turkey where the Euphrates begins was the lowest in 30 years and for the past two years, the region has received only 50-70 percent of normal rainfall. Syria is currently facing its worst drought in 70 years.
The 1,700 mile-long Euphrates is the main source of drinking water as well as powering three hydroelectric plants that produce electricity for about three million people in Syria. Two dams in northern Syria face imminent closure which would leave about three million people without any access to electricity. The water level at the Tishrin Dam, the first into which the river falls inside Syria, has dropped five meters and is currently about ten centimeters above “dead level” when the turbines stop producing electricity.
The sources of the river lie in Turkey and an agreement between the two countries in 1987 allowed an annual average of 500 cubic meters per second of water to cross into Syria. In recent months, that amount has dropped to as little as 200 cubic meters per second.
Some experts believe that Turkey is using the water crisis to exert a political agenda. Much of the path of the Euphrates inside Syria lies inside the northeastern region of the country which is controlled by the semi-independent Kurds which Turkey considers to be a terrorist organization…
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Turkey cuts off the water filling huge lakes inside Turkey. They do it to punish neighbors who don’t want them in their country.
Erdoo’s Turkey really does suck. Pure Islamist Fascist Dictator.
Sooner than yesterday but not as soon as tomorrow.
Amen sister!
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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