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Hassan Aboelnga, Middle East Water Forum. The Middle East and North Africa is the most water scarce region in the world, and water security is under mounting pressure from multiple directions. The region is struggling under the COVID-19 pandemic, which has created additional strain on water availability. Many are asking what lies ahead.
Is the Middle East and North Africa region trapped in a vicious cycle? Seeking water security beyond COVID 19 Perspectives , Transboundary , Water Security
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), currently facing an urgent water crisis, innovative approaches could drive the formulation of agreements and identify common interests between States to address gaps in international water law and standards regarding transboundary aquifers. If the international entities steering these processes to ...
Is the Middle East and North Africa region trapped in a vicious cycle? Seeking water security beyond COVID 19 Perspectives , Transboundary , Water Security
In two cases in Asia, hydroregions were divided into areas with more comparable annual temperatures: (i) the Asian Dry belt, from the Arabic desert to Mongolia, which is split into the Middle East (average temperature 20.8°C) and Central Asia (5°C), and (ii) the Asian Boreal region, split into West (-5.3°C) and East Siberia (-10.8°C).
Lake Urmia in the north-west of Iran used to be the largest salt-lake in the Middle East, known for the surrounding lush wetlands, flocks of flamingos and lake mud. People believed this mud to have therapeutic properties such as relieving symptoms of rheumatic and skin diseases, attracting tourists from across the region.
François Molle is Director of Research at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and is currently seconded to the International Water Management Institute, based in Cairo, where he develops research activities in the Middle-East and North-Africa region.
Water availability is thus an important factor that drives agricultural production and trade. In emerging economies where there is heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture, like East Africa and the West African Sahel, the impacts of droughts on agriculture create a plethora of risks for food production and water security.
Although often dubbed ‘our most precious resource 16 ‘, water is not the new oil; water is not at the centre of world capitalism. 17 In the Middle East, where water wars are supposedly more probable than anywhere else, researcher Jan Selby even observed that ‘[ ] with the waning economic importance of agriculture, water has become (and ...
Around the world there is growing interest in establishing water markets as a mechanism to share water and to help meet the challenge of water scarcity. But when and where is a region ready to implement a water market? These questions are answered in Water Markets – A Global Assessment, a new book edited by Sarah Ann Wheeler. It brings ...