Water brazing in Mesopotamia

There are limited usable water resources all around the world. One of them is Mesopotamia where the most fertile lands are. Having fertile lands and water resources Mezopotamia which hostesses many civilizations is one of the most popular living quarters since beginning of history. It is possible to explain Mesopotamia’s attractiveness with Firat and Dicle rivers. Since antiquities, civilizations’ the biggest attempt which lived in this region was to obtain these two "blue golden mines."

Being essence of life in Middle East mythology "water; is a symbol of peace, security, foods and mercy. Described as an element of balance in irritability-calmness paradox water is a kind of stabilizing despite of all instability.

For water that causing countless fight more than 5,000 war and conflict happened and more than 3,600 agreement were signed. As an utopian theorist Mc Kinder told, "One of the important crossing point of Big World Island Mesopotamia became at the center of water wars for thousand years with its water resources. Qualified, as "Fertile Crescent" Mesopotamia became an element of power as the most expensive immovable property in the world. Dicle and Firat are composing the vital elements of this source of power. BC 3000 Sumer civilization constructed a channel network between Firat and Dicle to use them more functional. The main factors in collapse of the civilization were these two rivers in BC 1800. When we come to today, water supply is increasing insufficient to meet world population’s demands, so water is becoming a strategic commodity and Mesopotamia’s limited water is becoming Middle East’s most important problem.

Especially for last decades water became a vital issue in Middle East. Using oil as a weapon against West Arab countries, although they backfired so far, are eager to use water as a politic means as well as oil. With its cultural and religious values water became a political symbol in the region and politicized water turned into a factor of power that tied to political interaction process.