Global & Disaster Medicine

Mosul Dam in Iraq: May collapse because of insufficient maintenance, overwhelming major communities downstream with floodwaters.

January 11th, 2016

NY Times

**  “…..In the worst-case scenario, according to State Department officials, an estimated 500,000 people could be killed while more than a million could be rendered homeless if the dam, Iraq’s largest, were to collapse in the spring, when the Tigris is swollen by rain and melting snow……”

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