This river plays a critical role in maintaining the marshes as a flow-through system and preventing it from becoming a closed saline basin.

[2] In the southwest of Iran and the southeast of Iraq, the Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes host many small cities.

The people small canoe-like boats called Mashoof to move between Iraq and Iran.

These rivers flooded the land, created the marshes and started a new ecosystem with new animals, birds, fish and plants.

In 1990-1992 when the Hussein government decided to dry the marshes because they thought an armed group lived there, the population left.

[4] A water and environmental expert living in America says: "Currently, by drying a large part of this wetland due to exploration operations and the development of the oil field, serious damage has been done to the environment.

"[4] He added that manipulating wetlands and drying them causes a large part of dust and fine-grained sediments to be moved with every strong wind.