Access to water in Iraq is a complex issue. Factors like pollution, internal water management policies, dysfunctional water infrastructure, impacts of climate change, and the current conflict with Daesh make the situation more urgent. These problems are compounded by the failure of the Iraqi government to take measures to ensure that Turkey, Syria and Iran release adequate
flows of water into Iraq via its shared rivers. In the long-term this failure may prove the greatest threat to ensuring the human right to water.

The water situation in Iraq is in severe crisis, as acknowledged by the United Nations itself in their country profile for Iraq