The Dial 7/25/23 The Dial 7/25/23

Editors’ Note

Issue 6: Rivers

Winthrop Rodgers 7/25/23 Winthrop Rodgers 7/25/23

The End of the Mesopotamian Basin

Can the Tigris and Euphrates be saved?

Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23 Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23

The city is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood that could displace millions.

Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23 Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23

Every day, he releases one salmon from the pens into the sea, which gives him “an intoxicating feeling of control over life and death.”

Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23 Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23

“The River Stopped Its Flow” and “Who Am I?”

Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23 Kapka Kassabova 7/11/23

Time was replaced by water.

Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23 Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23

What happens to the animals when there's nothing to drink?

Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23 Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23

The water in Nigeria has now dried up, but its effects have not evaporated with it.

Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23 Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23

A Ukrainian journalist returns to her hometown after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23 Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23

A filmmaker’s diary from the Thames and Yangtze rivers.

Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23 Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23

Italy’s Po Valley is drying up. Who will feed the country now?