An Arab woman trudges through the marshlands at Al-Hammar marsh in Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad January 23, 2009. Miles of reed stalks and baked mud are all that can be seen of much of Iraq’s ancient marshes this year, as a lack of water threatens to turn one of the worlds’s most important wetlands to wasteland. Picture taken January 23, 2009. To match feature IRAQ/MARSH-WATER REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ) – RTXB62L