I was jogging along the trail on the banks of the tigris , heading south .
我沿着底格里斯河旁的一条小径向南慢跑。
It aimed to improve agriculture and provide water and electricity to poor south-eastern villages around the tigris and euphrates rivers .
该工程旨在改进农业生产，为底格里斯河和幼发拉底河流域贫困的东南村庄供水、供电。
Not long ago corpses regularly floated down the tigris , but today the rowers enjoy the waters as they train for the upcoming london 2012 olympics games .
North of anl urfa the ground ripples into the first foothills of the mountains that run across southern turkey , source of the famous tigris and euphrates rivers .
Usually upstream countries dominate control of a river like the tigris and euphrates which are much reduced by the time they flow into iraq from turkey and syria .
