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Detailed explanation-1: -Lake Sawa is a unique body of water in Iraq since characterized by highest salinity value (up to 35 g/L as TDS) among Iraqi inland bodies water.

Detailed explanation-2: -About Sawa Lake It is a biodiversity-rich wetland located near the city of Samwa, south of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lake Sawa, in Iraq, dried up this year, as a result of poor water resource management, neglect by the government and climate change, informs Associated Press. Lake Sawa is an endorheic lake in the governorate of Muthanna near the Euphrates River and the city of Samawa, 4.5 km long and 1.8 km wide.

Detailed explanation-4: -’The end of days is near’: Iraq’s Lake Sawa dries up amid water crisis. Hussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq’s Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him.

Detailed explanation-5: -Abbas al-Amiri, director of the Environmental Analysis Unit in Al-Muthanna Environment Department, told Al-Monitor, “The deepest point in the Sawa Lake is about 7 meters [23 feet], and it is about 5 meters [16 feet] above the level of the surrounding land and the Euphrates.”