UN expert urges long-term, rights-based approach to water crisis in JordanUN News Centre
UNICEF states that 11 out of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world are in the Middle East and north Africa: Qatar, Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman[1]. ...
& Blum, I. Rethinking Coordination of Services to Refugees in Urban Areas: Managing the Crisis in Jordan and Lebanon. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_ reports/RR1485.html (2016). 19. Al-Mefleh, N. K., AlAyyash, S. M. & Bani Khaled, F. A. Water management problems and ...
What are the features of intelligent water systems (IWSs), their contributions, and future opportunities that could be provided by intelligent water hackathons in the Arabsphere? Literature review Coronaviruses (CoV) pandemic The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a crisis in food, health, and water...
Source: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan figures from David R. Smith "Climate Change, Water Supply, and Conflict in the Aral Sea Basin", paper presented at the "Pri-Aral Workshop 1994", San Diego State University, March 1994: Others from Peter H. Gleick, Water in Crisis (NY, Oxford University...
As the second driest country in the world according to the latest United Nations (UN) data,[2] the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan faces a deepening water crisis. The Jordanian population is among the most water-deprived globally. As UNICEF put it, ‘Jordan’s annual renewable water resources ar...
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Syria’s Water Crisis: Assessing the Intersection of Climate Change and Geopolitical Interests In Syria, the humanitarian crisis resulting from over ten years of war, along with the geopolitical lines drawn by local and regional players, make it … ...
A 5-country evaluation of the development of sustainable WASH programmes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria carried out by [40] identified the following successes: 7.13. Conclusions The importance of WASH in general in promoting human and environmental health and the role of engineers...
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