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Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division
Foreign Agricultural Service

Shown are relative lake height variations for Lake Beysehir in Turkey and Lake Buhayrat in Central Iraq and Lake Urmia in northwest Iran. A period of drought occurred from 1999 to 2001. Rainfall in Turkey, northern Iraq and adjacent regions increased in both 2002 and 2003 and has gradually recharged reservoirs.

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