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Healing Wounds Of Conflict Through Water Diplomacy
October 31st, 2015
Courtesy of IWA’s The Source magazine, a very insightful article on an audacious roadmap for the Jordan River involving a new US$4.6 billion master plan to bring peace, understanding– and treatment plants–to the most contested and politicised waters on earth: In the 1840s, US naval officer William Lynch led three boats down the Jordan River […]
Read more »Deliberate Targeting Of Water Sources Worsens Misery For Millions of Syrians
August 26th, 2015
Via Inter Press Service, more sad news of the use of water as a weapon in Syria: The conflict in Syria has destroyed much of the country’s water infrastructure, leaving five million people suffering from a critical water shortage. Imagine having to venture out into a conflict zone in search of water because rebel groups […]
Read more »Using Water As A Weapon In Syria
August 11th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the use of water as a weapon in Syria: Years of vicious warfare and a lack of investment and maintenance have taken a severe toll on water infrastructure across Syria. The conflict’s scale made it inevitable that piped water would either be intermittent or simply unavailable across […]
Read more »Water Scarcity: Major Factor In Middle East Tensions
May 28th, 2015
Via Water Online, an article on the impact that water scarcity is having upon Middle East tension: Water crises in the Middle East are helping “radicalize” the region, according to VICE. The inaccessibility of clean drinking water, water scarcity, drought, and food insecurity all combine to “make communities vulnerable—especially to extremist groups. By either providing water access […]
Read more »Drought: Trigger For Syria’s Civil War?
March 3rd, 2015
Via Mashable, a detailed look at how global warming sparked Syria’s civil war: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March […]
Read more »Water Politics In The Tigris-Euphrates Basin
January 5th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of issues related to headwater management in the Tigris-Euphrates basin: Controlling the headwaters of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin gives Turkey leverage over its neighbors’ water security. Turkey has talked about utilizing its water resources since the country’s founding, but only since the mid-20th century has the government actively worked […]
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