Journal of college of Law for Legal and Political Sciences

Abstract

Abstract
International law did not seem necessary attention to international rivers only at the beginning of the twentieth century, due to the development and complexity of international relations on the use of international rivers, As well as increased importance after an increase in demand and doubled peoples need to freshwater after the steady increase in population numbers in the world and the diversity of water use, And this is why the development and study of international legal norms governing international rivers as one of the main economic resources which are indispensable.
Iraq is not far away from these problems, where Turkey is still considered the Euphrates River is not concerned with international law "transboundary waters and not an international river." Based on this, it has established its water projects without consulting with neighbors of the basin countries (Syria and Iraq), And so blew principle common rights equal to the basin countries, did not violate the terms of international law, but also hurt the states pelvis which has many economic projects due to low water flow across the river as it violated (Article d) of the principles of the 1966 Helsinki as Euphrates rivers internationally and the same thingwith the Tigris River as it in recent years has seen few in the quantities of water.