A farmer digs with a shovel in an agricultural field in his farm in the Khanaqin area, north of Diyala, in eastern Iraq on June 24, 2021. - As Iraq bakes under a blistering summer heat wave, its hard-scrabble farmers and herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life. The oil-rich country, scarred by four decades of war, is also one of the world's most vulnerable to the climate crisis and struggles with a host of other environmental challenges. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
