Shared Water Resources in Lebanon The shared groundwater with the neighbouring regions is harder to estimate because of the complexity of the groundwater systems. However, it is … Tags: Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - Water Governance - July 27, 2022
Shared Water Resources in Jordan Jordan’s access to water from the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers is affected by the fact that Israel and Syria extract large quantities of water … Tags: Water Crisis - Water Diplomacy - Water Governance - June 2, 2022
Shared Water Resources in Sudan Sudan also shares several aquifers with neighbouring countries for the groundwater resources, such as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer with Egypt, Libya … Tags: Nile River - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - August 31, 2021
What Does the Future Hold for Water in Sudan? One of its main transboundary water challenges is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Sudan was welcoming the construction of GERD at the … Tags: Ethiopia - Water Diplomacy - Water Governance - August 31, 2021
Shared Water Resources in KSA The southern section of the Umm er Radhuma-Dammam Aquifer System spreads from the Gulf Coast in the north and the Oman Mountains in the south-east … Tags: Aquifer - Groundwater - Salinity - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - June 28, 2021
Shared Water Resources in Kuwait The Umm er Radhuma and Dammam constitute the main aquifers forming the shared aquifer system. The northern section of the system is shared by Iraq, … Tags: Aquifer - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - December 24, 2020
Potential Water Scarcity is Fuelling the Conflict Between Egypt and Ethiopia Ongoing disagreements over technical and legal issues concerning the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile led … Tags: Ethiopia - Nile River - Water Diplomacy - October 6, 2020
Shared Water Resources in Tunisia The major North-Western Sahara Aquifer System covers over 1 million km2, of which 700,000 are in Algeria, 80,000 in Tunisia and 250,000 in Libya. Tags: Aquifer - Groundwater - Water Diplomacy - March 4, 2020
The Nile takes center stage at 10th Hydro-hegemony conference With two dedicated sessions and a number of mentions throughout other presentations, the Nile Basin took the center stage during the conference, with … Tags: Ethiopia - Nile River - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - November 4, 2019
Shared Water Resources in Algeria The shared water resources in Algeria includes , five aquifers shared with its neighbours: Errachidia with Morocco, Tin-Sérririne with Niger, Air … Tags: Aquifer - Groundwater - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - July 30, 2019
First Mesopotamian Water Forum addresses key challenges to regional water management Held from 6-8 April 2019 at the University of Sulaimani, the forum set out to address some of these challenges in the 21st century and to promote … Tags: Dams - Euphrates - Kurdistan - Rivers - Tigris - Water Diplomacy - July 22, 2019
Shared Water Resources in Syria The Euphrates is the largest river in Syria. Originating in Turkey and flowing through Syria and Iraq, it joins the Tigris in Iraq and becomes the … Tags: Conflict - Euphrates - Tigris - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - March 22, 2019
What Does the Future Hold for Water in Syria? Syria, like most countries in the MENA region, cannot meet its current water demand, and the situation is likely to get worse. With a changing … Tags: Water Diplomacy - Water Strategy - March 22, 2019
Shared Water Resources in Egypt There is significant conflict over access and rights to Nile water resources among the 11 riparian countries of the Nile Basin. Tags: Ethiopia - Nile River - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - December 20, 2018
Shared Water Resources in Oman There are no water agreements in place for the southern part of the Umm er Radhuma-Dammam aquifer system, which is shared between Oman, Saudi Arabia, … Tags: Aquifer - Water Diplomacy - May 7, 2018
Water Diplomacy in the MENA Region: A New Training Programme for Young Professionals The ultimate goal of the programme is to create a generation of young professionals who are dedicated to solving the current water problems by … Tags: Education - Nile River - Water Diplomacy - December 4, 2017
The Asi River and the Turkey-Syria Friendship Dam For many years, negotiations between Turkey and Syria over the Orontes or Asi River were linked to issues concerning the Euphrates and Tigris rivers … Tags: Dams - Hydropower - Rivers - Water Diplomacy - April 3, 2017
Iraq’s Shared Water Resources Bilateral and tripartite meetings have taken place between Turkey, Iraq and Syria since the mid-1960s. Despite the various attempts to negotiate a … Tags: Euphrates - Tigris - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - November 15, 2016
Turkey’s Transboundary Waters The Euphrates-Tigris basin is among the most important river basins in Turkey and in the Middle East. The average annual discharge of the Euphrates … Tags: Euphrates - Hydropower - Rivers - Tigris - Transboundary Waters - Water Diplomacy - October 19, 2016
