Photo 32 - near Bassrah old port in southern Iraq 40-year-old fisherman Naim Haddad walks with his daughter and his catch of the fish on the bank of shat al arab river where the water of the Tigris and Euphratus merge before spilling into the sea - 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 Ayman HENNA / AFP)