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Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace
September 20th, 2016
Via the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, an interesting look at the state of affairs that characterize many important share water basins around the world: Early this June, the Israeli government cut off drinking water to people living in the Salfit region of the West Bank and three villages east of Nablus. The consequences have been dire. […]
Read more »Watering The Middle East
September 15th, 2016
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on MENA’s water challenges: The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – have faced the worst water shortages in decades in 2016. This […]
Read more »Asia-Pacific: ‘Hot Spot For Water Insecurity’
September 6th, 2016
Via SciDev, a look at the stress on Asia-Pacific water resources from rising demand from users and an examination of how food growers have to compete for water with households, industries, power plants: Economies in the Asia-Pacific region cannot sustain their present dynamic growth “unless water is brought into the equation” as […]
Read more »S. Asia Water Basin Supports 750 million, But 60% Is Contaminated
August 30th, 2016
Via Nature World News, a sobering report on Asia’s water contamination crisis: A water crisis has hit southern Asia, but breaks with current global trends and is not caused by depletion of the resource. A large river basin is the main source of groundwater for more than 750 million people in Pakistan, India, Nepal and […]
Read more »Finding Water In The Desert: Water Security In The Middle East
August 18th, 2016
Via The Cipher Brief, a look at water security in the Middle East / North Africa region: In 1979, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that “the only matter which could take Egypt to war again is water.” That war may not have come yet, but the truth behind Sadat’s warning remains just as relevant today, […]
Read more »Food and Water Security in a Hotter Middle East
August 10th, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a look at food and water security in the Middle East: Background Rising temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are likely to force regional states to address the exacerbated threat to the supply and security of food and water. This issue is brought to the fore by the […]
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