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Satellite map of the Middle East. The three headwaters of the Jordan River – the Hasbani River (annual stable flow of 250 Mm 3), the Banias River (annual stable flow of 125 Mm 3), and the Dan River (annual stable flow of 250 Mm 3) originate in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, respectively. [2] They merge in Lake Huleh and then flow south as the ...
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 ...
3 East Africa. 4 West Africa. 5 North Africa. 6 Rivers of Africa by discharge. ... This is a list of rivers in Africa. See below each river's article for its ...
Another name for the Tigris used in Middle Persian was Arvand Rud, literally "swift river". Today, however, Arvand Rud (Persian: اروندرود) refers to the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, known in Arabic as the Šaṭṭ al-ʿArab. In Kurdish languages, it is known as Ava Mezin, "the Great Water". [8]
Satellite view of Africa 1916 physical map of Africa. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia, 950 m (3,120 ft). In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively ...
The transport of pipe segments for the Great Man-Made River (GMMR) in the Sahara desert, Libya, during the 1980s.A network of pipes that supplies water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer in the Sahara desert of Libya, the GMMR is the world's largest irrigation project.
Geography of the Middle East — a region of Western Asia and Egypt in North Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
The claims over rights to water in the Middle East are centred around the area's three major river systems - the Nile, the River Jordan, and the Tigris-Euphrates river basin. International water agreements in Middle East have been rare, but the situation regarding regional water relations in the three main basins will be explored below.