Iraqi Kurdish farmers install irrigation pipes on an agricultural land in the village of Bajid Kandala, situated on the banks of the Tigris river, some 50km west of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on February 18, 2022. - The Tigris is one of Iraq's two big rivers that gave birth to the ancient empires of Sumer and Babylonia and are said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden. Today, it is dying.Human activity and climate change have choked the once mighty stream that, with its twin the Euphrates, brought to life the civilisations of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP)