Conflicts over the same water source
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- Created on: 08-06-14 10:24
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- Conflicts over the same water source
- Water conflicts occur when demand for water overtakes supply and several stakeholders wish to use the same resource
- The UN reports there arund 300 potential conflicts in the world e.g. China vs India Brahmaputra River
- Case Study: Middle East Water Conflicts
- Middle East is one of the most water-scarce regions in the world
- Due to popilation growth, increasing affluence and development of irrigated farmlands there are increasing pressures on water supplies
- Further Instability us created due to:
- Overall scarcity of water but also poor access
- Declining oil reserves with future drop in oil revenues
- Rising youthful population and increasing demands
- At the moment the Middle East uses revenue from their oil exports to pay for desalination plants to provide extra water
- Also to pay for water and food imports
- No single country in the Middle East can resolve its water problems without impacting another country
- Potential Conflicts
- The Euphrates and Tigris rivers originate in turkey but supply Syria and Iraq with water. Turkey wants to dam these rivers to improve incomes to Anatolia
- 1967, Syria and other Arab states objected to Israel's National Water Carrier project and tried to destroy it. Israel then bombed their attempts to divert the River Jordan from Irael
- Droughts across the whole region between 1990-2005 increased fears of conflicts
- Bombing of Lebanese water pipelines by Israel in 2006
- Water conflicts occur when demand for water overtakes supply and several stakeholders wish to use the same resource
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