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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 »Yemen: Food, Water And The ‘Slow Motion Coup’
February 26th, 2015
Courtesy of Future Directions International, a look at the intrinsic link between Yemen’s food and water insecurity and its political and social instability: Key Points Yemen is the most food insecure country in the Middle East and has the eighth-worst hunger rate globally. Currently, over 10 million Yemenis, or 42.5 per cent of the population, are […]
Read more »Yemen’s Water Crisis: As Nation Dries, Economy Withers
December 2nd, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of Yemen’s water crisis: For all that is said about water scarcity, the term is somewhat misused. Oftentimes, water becomes more difficult to access or becomes more expensive; on a countrywide scale, it remains available in most cases. But some countries are actually running out of water. Yemen is […]
Read more »How Yemen Chewed Itself Dry
July 24th, 2013
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on Yemen’s water crisis: In a little over a decade, Sana’a, Yemen, may become the world’s first capital to run out of water. Failed governance and environmental mismanagement share some of the blame for drying up the city. But there is also a more surprising culprit: a national addiction […]
Read more »Yemen: Water Is Worth Fighting Over
May 9th, 2013
Courtesy of The New York Times, an Op-Ed on Yemen: I am in the Yemen International Hospital in Taiz, the Yemeni city in the central highlands that is suffering from such an acute water shortage that people get to run their taps for only 36 hours every 30 days or so. They have to fill […]
Read more »Yemen’s Water Woes
August 31st, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Yemen’s water woes: During Yemen’s rainy season, which stretches from August to October, the Silah, the cobbled road that intersects the capital Sanaa’s ancient Old City, often floods becoming, for a few brief hours, a fast-running river. Over the years, the road has been gradually deepened, with steps built […]
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