The Tigris flows quietly past the ancient stones of Hasankeyf — or rather, it used to. Today, much of that historic town lies submerged beneath the waters of the Ilisu Dam reservoir. For the Kurdish families who lived there for generations, the flooding was not a natural disaster but a political one

The year is 2009. After visiting his family in Balochistan, Ehsan Arjemani boards a bus to the airport. What should have been a routine journey takes a sudden and terrifying turn.

"Thus, we want to alleviate your pain with songs of broken souls. Thus, we implore you, welcome the Roma into your Homelands and let us share our grief and laughter with one another."

The writing -and the mud- are on the wall. It’s never too late to learn from it all, especially if we are to find a way of preventing water from becoming the bone of contention of future wars, a prophecy the pundits are sadly pointing to.