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Flooding masks Syria's 'catastrophic' water shortage caused by illegal wells | The National

· By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
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A prominent Syrian hydrologist has urged the new authorities to shut down hundreds of thousands of illegal wells that have caused a water “catastrophe” in the country by siphoning from its aquifers.

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