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A new approach to water in the Middle East was introduced by Strategic Foresight Group, in a report co-sponsored by the Swiss and Swedish governments titled The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water [27] Blue Peace is defined as the comprehensive, integrated and collaborative management of all water resources in a circle of countries in a ...
Currently, the Middle East and North Africa are acknowledged as the most water scarce region in the world, with 61% of the population living in areas with high or very high water stress. [23] As climate change worsens and population grows, water scarcity in the region is expected to worsen with 100% of people living in the Middle East and North ...
This conclusion is reached after examining trans-boundary water relations in over 200 shared river basins in 148 countries. Countries in the Middle East face the risk of war as they have avoided regional cooperation for too long. The report provides examples of successful cooperation, which can be used by countries in the Middle East.
Map (in French) showing the locations of dams and barrages built in the Syro–Turkish part of the Euphrates basin. The Hindiya Barrage on the Iraqi Euphrates, based on plans by British civil engineer William Willcocks and finished in 1913, was the first modern water diversion structure built in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. [36]
Common variants of qanat in English include kanat, khanat, kunut, kona, konait, ghanat, ghundat. [3]Qanāh (قناة) is an Arabic word that means "channel". [4] In Persian, the words for "qanat" are kārīz (or kārēz; كاريز) and is derived from earlier word kāhrēz (كاهریز).
The flooding of the Gulf may have stimulated the development of Neolithic farming cultures in regions of the Middle East adjacent to the Gulf. [27] Map depicting extent of early civilizations around the Persian Gulf, including Lackhmids and Sassanids. Map depicting the Achaemenid Persian empire in relation to the Persian Gulf.
The EcoPeace Middle East, a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian environmental group, has estimated that the annual flow into the Dead Sea from the Jordan is as of 2021 less than 100,000,000 cubic metres (3.5 × 10 9 cu ft) of water, compared with former flows of between 1,200,000,000 cubic metres (4.2 × 10 10 cu ft) and 1,300,000,000 cubic ...
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.