Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East

Source:Fair Observer Date:24Aug2019

An in-depth study of how climate change, conflict and beggar-thy-neighbor policies are robbing Middle East off its scarcest asset:  Water!

Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt’s relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank.

According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of northern India.