BBCNEWS Witness History November 19, 2021 02:40:00
Wangari maathai's daughter, wanjira, there. and now to iraq where, in the early 1990s, saddam hussein commissioned a huge engineering project to drain the largest wetland in the middle east. our next witness, iraqi engineer azzam alwash, told us about his memories of the area as a boy, and the impact the draining had on an ancient way of life. the marshes, to me, are associated with times alone with my father. and there's this slowness, riding along in these narrow streams surrounded by reeds, i have memories of going over the side of the boat and looking at the clear water and seeing the fish...
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