The importance of media policy and news analysis in the water crisis in Iraq: a conceptual approach

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in creating an effective media policy through news analysis tools to achieve the objectives, which contributes to shedding light on the water crisis, which is one of the serious problems. This requires the government and relevant authorities to achieve harmony between the government's approach and the media and news policy to shed light on the local and international levels in accordance with the legal frameworks and Iraq's historical and geographical entitlement guaranteed by international laws that define the relationship between countries sharing rivers, whether the source countries or the downstream countries. This makes the media an effective and important means to bring about water rights for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This depends on media diversification and the adoption of an efficient media policy that would provide social and political awareness in society, such as Iraq's water rights and how to confront the desertification crisis and water scarcity caused by global warming, and finding modern methods related to water management, as well as obligating countries to adhere to international laws and agreements that grant water rights between riparian countries, including Turkey and Iraq, and obtaining appropriate water shares.