Water crisis uproots Syrian farmers

2009/07/26 19:34:30 @Reuters: International News

SHAIZAR CASTLE, Syria (Reuters) - Only a few decades ago, fish were plentiful in the Orontes river which for thousands of years has provided water to the lush Syrian plains, at the crossroads of the ancient world. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Msiu9twdM2U:7VVj_2PvAyU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Msiu9twdM2U:7VVj_2PvAyU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Msiu9twdM2U:7VVj_2PvAyU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Msiu9twdM2U:7VVj_2PvAyU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Msiu9twdM2U:7VVj_2PvAyU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Msiu9twdM2U" height="1" width="1"/
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