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Turkish Plans To Sell Israel Water Dry Up
June 23rd, 2010
Via Terra Daily, a report that Turkey has rescinded plans to sell water to Israel. At the article notes: “…The Islamist government in Ankara has shelved plans to sell the Jewish state 1.75 billion cubic feet of water a year for 20 years from the Mavganat River in Anatolia, part of its wider strategy of […]
Read more »Iraq’s Water Challenges
June 13th, 2010
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how the The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly democratic government is almost powerless to fix. As the article notes: “…Withered […]
Read more »A Peace Pipe(line) Providing Water To Cyprus?
March 4th, 2010
Via MinnPost, an interesting look at the potential that a water shortage and a proposed pipeline could help bring peace to Cyprus. As the article notes: “…When Cyprus lay dry and parched with drought in 2008, Senol Akmehmet had to buy water shipped in by truck to keep his goats and sheep alive. He couldn’t […]
Read more »Hydrologic Security and Syria’s Liquid Worries
February 17th, 2010
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report detailing how much of Syria’s economics, history, politics, diplomacy, and culture have often been defined in a large part by water. As the article notes, water is a key to peace and prosperity in the region and it may also be key to war and conflict among Syria […]
Read more »“Liquid Peace” In The Middle East
January 13th, 2010
Via Green Prophet, an interesting interview with Ashkelon, Israel’s mayor Benny Vaknin who is building a water bridge with the city of Gaza. As the report notes, how does Ashkelon’s mayor Benny Vaknin see “liquid†peace in the region? “…The former businessman is working to solutions for peace and cooperation with the nearby Gaza City. […]
Read more »The Ring Tide of Mideast Water Tension: Neo-Ottomanism & Turkey As A Hydrological Superpower
January 9th, 2010
Courtesy of NPR, an interesting look at the acute water shortage in the Middle East, and downstream resentment from Arabs, Iraqis and the Syrians that Turkey is growing into a hydrological superpower. As the article notes: The massive Ataturk Dam (shown here in 1992), in southeast Turkey, harnesses water for one of the biggest irrigation […]
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