Euphrates River Drying Up News 2024. The areas of darker shading indicate a more severe drought. The euphrates river is at risk of drying up due to climate change.

Reputed to have once flown through the biblical garden of eden, the euphrates runs for almost 2,800 kilometers (1,700 miles) across turkey, syria and iraq. Aid groups and engineers are warning of a looming humanitarian disaster in northeast syria, where plummeting water levels at hydroelectric dams since january are.