Middle East - AfricaWater ReuseWater Stress The Middle East region has facedwater scarcityfor a number of years. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, along with the rest of the Middle East region, falls almost exclusively into extreme baseline stressed conditions. This fact is not new....
Water stress in Africa and in the Middle East—particularly in the Nile Basin—is likely to lead to a range of conflicts, not because there is not enough scientific information to go around, but for other reasons. Water stress is likely to emerge as an increasingly important concern because ...
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The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System in Northeast Africa and the Middle East is a huge water resource of inestimable value to the population. However, natural radioactivity impairs groundwater quality throughout the aquifer posing a radiological health risk to millions of people. Here we present measur...
More than 60 percent of the region's population live in areas under high or very high water stress compared to just 35 percent worldwide, the report said. Currently, more than half of waste water in the region is dumped into the environment untreated, resulting in waste and health risks, ...
We show that, despite policy goals and a decrease in electricity-related water withdrawal, the number of regions experiencing some reduction in power availability due to water stress rises from 47 basins to 54 basins between 2014 and 2030, with further plants planned for construction in stressed ...
Fishing boats in the Tigris–Euphrates river basin, which faces growing water stress because of a rise in crop irrigation and a drop in runoff. Credit: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/GettyHuman lives and activities in certain Asian and North American watersheds could face extreme risk during the next...
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"The region is naturally dry ... Water stress can exacerbate (使加重)both migration and conflct, and that water is currently a source of growing tension and violence in the Middle East," Reig said.Experts also warn that such a narrow space between supply and demand could push countries ...
Natural variability in surface water storage is greatest in tropical basins, whereas human-managed variability is greatest in the Middle East, southern Africa and the western USA. Strong regional patterns are also found, with human influence driving 67 per cent of surface water storage variability ...