id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt umn.31951d024033416 United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia. United States and the Iraqi marshlands : an environmental response : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, February 24, 2004 2004 .txt text/plain 9474 558 55 Marsh Arabs and rehabilitate the marshlands will require an international partnership of donors, humanitarian groups, technical experts and direct stakeholders working toward a common vision of The next steps in the marsh assistance program include more on-the-ground investigation and discussions with Iraqi officials to understand the drainage system Ecological and water resources management changes in the Tigris-Euphrates watershed have had, and will continue to have, profound political, economic, environmental and cultural/ethnical consequences in the countries composing the watershed: Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Several agencies and institutions present in this hearing (USAID, the Iraq Foundation) have specific proposals to address the restoration of the southern Iraqi proposed research and education capacity and infrastructure building plan will include a suite of viable alternative restoration approaches, developed at a programmatic level, as well as recommended processes and procedures for further evaluation and implementation of specific restoration projects. ./cache/umn.31951d024033416.pdf ./txt/umn.31951d024033416.txt