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New Plant Tries To Head Off Gaza Water Crisis
January 20th, 2017
Via Terra Daily, a report on a new desalination plant that hopes to head off a Gaza water crisis: The largest desalination plant in the Gaza Strip partially opened Thursday with international help as the impoverished and blockaded Palestinian enclave seeks to prevent a water crisis. The first phase of the plant opened in Deir […]
Read more »Water Shortages Hit West Bank Palestinians, Provoking War Of Words
August 25th, 2016
Via Reuters, a report on water shortages in Palestine: At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank are suffering from severe water shortages, prompting a war of words between Palestinian and Israeli officials over who is responsible. The Palestinians say Israel is preventing them from accessing adequate […]
Read more »Israel: Can A New Source Of Water Help Reduce Conflict In The Middle East?
August 17th, 2016
Via Ensia, a report on how Israel – once one of the world’s driest countries – is now overflowing with water and what it could mean for the region: Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them […]
Read more »Water in the West Bank: Palestinians Go Thirsty
August 11th, 2016
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Palestinians are going thirsty, despite sitting on an underground ocean: IYAD QASSEM is trying to run a coffee shop without water. He reuses the stuff in his sink, which quickly fills with muck, and in the shishas that Palestinians puff on his patio. It would be a […]
Read more »Israel’s Mediterranean Desalination Plants Could Shift Middle East’s Water Balance
July 26th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how Israel’s desalination could remake the region’s politics and ecology but hasn’t yet: The water that flows into Sorek desalination plant is drawn from near the Mediterranean Sea floor. Pumped inland, the water is cleansed, step by step, of salts and impurities. The transmutation does not take […]
Read more »Water and Insecurity In The Levant
May 9th, 2016
Via the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), a look at how the Middle East needs to join together to address common technical, political, and security issues to avoid water-driven instability: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-stressed area in the world. In the Levant sub-region, Jordan, Syria, West Bank/Gaza, […]
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