Lake Tharthār

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Lake Tharthār

reservoir, Iraq

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Wadi Tharthār
…Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthār, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in size with the amount of rainfall, has been connected by regulators and channels to the Sāmarrāʾ Barrage on the Tigris River, keeping it at a…
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…Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthār, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long. The reservoir, formerly a playa lake that varied in size with the amount of rainfall, has been connected by regulators and channels to the Sāmarrāʾ Barrage on the Tigris River, keeping it at a…
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