Images of the Marshlands, Southern Iraq, from NASA Space Shuttle Missions Stuart Leiderman, Environmental Response “Environmental Refugees and Ecological Restoration”
1985
Draining Oilfields of Eastern Central and Hammar Marshes (also Fires)
Haweizeh [?] Fires
Eastern Central & Hammar Marshes (Oilfields) Drained
Kuwait Gulf War Fires
April 1991 – Some Draining of Southwestern Hammar Lake?
June 1991
September 1991 – Mother of Battles [MOB]/Main Outfall Drain [MOD] Draining Hammar Lake
March 1992 – Hammar Lake Continuing to Drain
June MOB/MOD More Visible to East, w/Fires
September 1992 – First Signs of North/South Canal
September MOB/MOD Almost Complete
April North/South Canal Complete
April Central Canal, but Western Portion of Marshes Wet
October Western Portion of Central Marshes Now Dry
February 1994 – All Central & Hammar Dry
February 1994
Fires in Hammar Marsh
Marsh Fires
Hammar Fires
April Fires
March 1995
1998
Haweizeh Fires