# Climate and water

_Programme · The Kurdish Cooperation Organization · https://kurds.global/development/programmes/climate-and-water/_

Drought, rivers and dams, heat and dust across Kurdistan, explained with sources.

## Record

- **Platform**: Development
- **State**: in-preparation
- **Lede**: Water and heat shape life across Kurdistan, from the Tigris and Euphrates to Lake Urmia and the Zagros forests. This programme explains these risks in words and points to the sources.
- **Rivers and dams**: How dams on the Tigris and Euphrates affect people upstream and downstream, with every side's view.
- **Drought**: What drought means for farms, springs and villages.
- **Heat and dust**: How to protect health during heatwaves and dust storms.
- **Lakes and forests**: The state of Lake Urmia and the Zagros forests, as the sources describe it.
- **Audience**: Farmers and rural families, Students and researchers, Diaspora families with relatives at home, Teachers
- **Step 1**: Learn: take the courses on water and climate.
- **Step 2**: Read: follow each guide to its sources.
- **Step 3**: Prepare: use the heat and dust advice.
- **Step 4**: Discuss: raise questions in a moderated session.

## Provenance

Records updated 2026-11-11. Every value keeps its measure, year, source and label (verified, secondary, to verify); unknown is shown as unknown. Verify, add a source or report this record on its page.

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## See also

- [Development](https://kurds.global/development/)