Turkey, Iraq and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding on September 3, 2009, in order to strengthen communication within the Tigris-Euphrates Basin and to develop joint water-flow-monitoring stations.

It is a large freshwater carp found in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin.

The Tigris-Euphrates river system is a large swamp and river system in southern Iraq, traditionally inhabited in part by the Marsh Arabs.

The Tigris – Euphrates river system is part of the palearctic Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh ecoregion, in the flooded grasslands and savannas biome, located in West Asia.

It is distributed mainly in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley in Iraq and western Iran.

Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

The Marsh Arabs ( ʻArab al-Ahwār " Arabs of the Marshlands "), also known as the Maʻdān (), are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border.

The world's earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia ( beginning with Sumer ), ancient Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent ( beginning with the Indus Valley civilization ), which began along the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile and Indus rivers respectively, all developed around the Indian Ocean.

Features analogous to trenches are associated with collisions zones ; these are sediment-filled foredeeps referred to as peripheral foreland basins, such as that which the Ganges River and Tigris-Euphrates rivers flow along.

Other rivers with notable deltas include, the Fly River, the Cauvery, the Niger River, the Tigris-Euphrates, the Rhine, the Po, the Rhône, the Danube, the Ebro, the Volga, the Lena, the Indus, the Ayeyarwady ( Irrawaddy ), the Mekong, the Huanghe, the Yangtze, the Sacramento-San Joaquin, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, and the Paraná.

Periodic flooding was essential to the well-being of ancient communities along the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers, the Nile River, the Indus River, the Ganges and the Yellow River, among others.

The Tigris-Euphrates plain lacked minerals.

The marshlands were a fine and extensive natural wetlands ecosystem which developed over thousands of years in the Tigris-Euphrates basin and once covered 15 – 20, 000 square kilometers.

Parts of the Mediterranean world, Roman Britain, Tigris-Euphrates river system and North Africa fell under the reach of this network at some point of their history.

For thousands of years the Ur-Shatt ( a confluence of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers ) provided fresh water to the Gulf, as it flowed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman.

The Zanj were needed to take care of: the Tigris-Euphrates delta, which had become abandoned marshland as a result of peasant migration and repeated flooding, could be reclaimed through intensive labor.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

The Bahamas is a beneficiary of the U. S .- Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act ( CBTPA ), Canada's CARIBCAN program, and the European Union's Lome IV Agreement.

The manager of a popular auditorium in the LA Basin town of Wilmington, California: " Although Monday night dancing is frankly an experiment it was the only night of the week on which this outstanding band could be secured.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Although Chadian society is economically, socially, and culturally fragmented, the country's geography is unified by the Lake Chad Basin.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Costa Rica's emigration is among the smallest in the Caribbean Basin.

Costa Rica's immigration is among the largest in the Caribbean Basin.

Rafting by ice of stones into marine environments occurred during much of the Cretaceous but evidence of deposition directly from glaciers is limited to the Early Cretaceous of the Eromanga Basin in southern Australia.

The Casiquiare canal – Orinoco River hydrographic divide is a representation of the hydrographic water divide that delineates the separation between the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin.

Essentially the river divide is a west-flowing, upriver section of Venezuela's Orinoco River with an outflow to the south into the Amazon Basin.

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is by the Congo River Basin, which covers an area of almost.

Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey ( Callimico goeldii ) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The population estimates on the Greeks during the 4th century BC, is approximately 3. 5 million on the Greek peninsula and 4 to 6. 5 million in the rest of the entire Mediterranean Basin, including all colonies such as those in Magna Graecia, Asia Minor and the shores of the Black Sea.

The port of Hong Kong has always been a key factor in the development and prosperity of the special administrative region, which is strategically located on the Far East trade routes and is in the geographical centre of the fast-developing Asia-Pacific Basin.

lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m ( sea surface level ), Wetar Basin in east of Banda Sea at-7, 440 m ( northwest of Tanimbar Islands & southeast of Ceram Island ), where subduction zone is

The remaining area, being explored by India, is in the Central Indian Basin of the Indian Ocean.

Sunshine, in accordance with Japan ’ s uniformly heavy rainfall, is generally modest in quantity, though no part of Japan receives the consistently gloomy fogs that envelope the Sichuan Basin or Taipei.

The second-and third-largest lakes, Songköl and Chatyr-Köl ( the latter of which also is saline ), are located in the Naryn River Basin.

Fraxinus quadrangulata ( Blue Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native primarily to the Midwestern United States, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.

Four major epidemics have occurred in recent history: one from 1896 – 1906 primarily in Uganda and the Congo Basin, two epidemics in 1920 and 1970 in several African countries, and a recent 2008 epidemic in Uganda.

The Helmand River ( also spelled Helmend, Helmund, Hirmand ; Pashto / Persian:, Greek: ( Etýmandros ), Latin: ) is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primarily watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.

" Cowboy " is a term common throughout the west and particularly in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, " Buckaroo " is used primarily in the Great Basin and California, and " cowpuncher " mostly in Texas and surrounding states.

The Pacific birds migrate south down the Pacific coast, staging primarily in the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon and northern California and wintering, eventually, in California's Central Valley.

When the Spanish missionaries came to California, they found that thousands of Native Americans lived in the Clear Lake Basin, primarily Pomo, Yuki, and Wappo with some Lake Miwok.

As of December 31, 2010, the pool had two participants and provides the Commercial Management for a fleet of four vessels, including the Company ’ s two chartered-in vessels, which primarily trade in the Atlantic Basin.

The term " Highland " here is relative: it is certainly higher than the Basin it surrounds, but it nonetheless is seldom at an elevation above above sea level, and never more than about above sea level except where interrupted, primarily to the southeast, by outliers of the Cumberland Plateau.

During the past few decades, publications in the scientific literature have primarily dealt with the apparent decimation of this fauna following the construction of dams within the Mobile River Basin and the inundation of extensive shoal ( a shallow place in a body of water ) habitats by impounded waters ( Goodrich 1944, Athearn 1970, Heard 1970, Stein 1976, Palmer 1986, Garner 1990 ).

In fall and spring, visitors to Île Notre-Dame primarily consist of gamblers at the casino and rowers and canoers at the Olympic Basin.

The game is set primarily in the Amazon Basin.

*: Hodoljublja ( 1982, " TV Sarajevo " Bosnia and Herzegovina ) ( Travelogue-a travel documentary with focus on culture, traditions, art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ( ex ) Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned, primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin.

The Babuza () are a Taiwanese aboriginal people, living primarily in Changhua County and around the western part of Taiwan's Central Basin.

It is native primarily to the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the Nashville Basin.

Land use in Basin 1 is primarily residential development, with one large park and several small parks.

Those located near the former Howard Park hospital are mainly upscale detached two-family homes, while the areas near Colemans Square, Charles Park, and Shelbank Basin contain primarily single family homes.

Thunder Basin National Grassland ( 547, 620 acres ) is located in northeastern Wyoming and consists primarily of lands leased to cattle interests.