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Diyālā Weir

dam, Iraq

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part of the Tigris and Euphrates river system

  • Tigris and Euphrates river basin
    In Tigris-Euphrates river system: Agriculture and irrigation

    …canals, which depend on the Diyālā Weir and the Hamrin Dam; canals and projects fed by the Al-Kūt Barrage, including the Gharrāf River Canal and the Shaṭṭ al-Dujaylah (an old bed of the Tigris); and canals and spillways from Al-ʿAmārah to Qalʿat Ṣāliḥ on the left bank of the Tigris.

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