Water

Water Scarcity and Environmental Peacebuilding: A Lens on Southern Iraq

Ali Al-Bayaa and Mostafa Mashhad • May 18 2023 • Articles

Rising demand for water amid Iraq’s soaring population has put significant pressure on already limited resources.

Environmental (In)Security in the Middle East

Adriana Seagle • May 15 2019 • Articles

Environmental issues are interlinked with social and political struggles across the region, and water and food security are areas in which countries have common interests.

Interview – Sherri Goodman

E-International Relations • Jan 24 2019 • Features

Sherri Goodman discusses climate change as a national security threat, water security, the Arctic, her career with the US Government and gives her advice to young scholars.

Interview – Houchang Chehabi

E-International Relations • Jul 12 2016 • Features

Houchang Chehabi elaborates on why Iran’s single biggest crisis is its drought, its impact on agricultural centers, as well as its implications on geopolitics.

‘Oil Then,’ ‘Water Now’: Another Reason for War in the 21st Century?

Strobe Driver • Jun 22 2015 • Articles

Water has now become a most sought after commodity, one that countries have displayed a renewed interest in and with an increasing amount of threat-of-force.

The Search for Water Wars: Looking beyond the State

Ed Atkins • Jun 8 2015 • Articles

The reallocation of water regularly leads to a redistribution of the benefits that it provides, provoking community action. It is here we find our debated water wars.

Axiomatic Solutions to Transboundary River Conflicts

Erik Ansink • May 19 2015 • Articles

Axioms relate to variability and uncertainty of river flow, the main drivers for countries’ defection from agreements or choice for non-cooperation in the first place

Avoiding a Zero-Sum Water-Energy End Game: Bring It to Rio+20

Olimar E. Maisonet-Guzman • Nov 1 2011 • Articles

It seems that there is an inverse relationship between water and energy security, but is this scenario real or imagined? Although it is only one step, the incorporation of the water-energy nexus into the Rio+20 agenda would help to improve our understanding of sustainability.

Water Insecurity in the Middle East: a Cause for Conflict or Cooperation?

Mesrob Kassemdjian • Nov 19 2010 • Articles

The Middle East is a very complex region with many factors causing states to enter into violent and intractable conflicts. The region has been adversely affected by climate change. This has led to the entire Middle East becoming dryer, thus meaning that water volumes, be it in aquifers or river basins, are declining. Therefore, water scarcity is steadily affecting food supply.

Water and Cooperation

Mary Durfee • Nov 12 2008 • Articles

Recent news in June 2008 that a Japanese firm has prototyped a car that runs on the reaction between metal hydride and water, did not cause joy in my heart. I was delighted to learn it was not really true. Like the rush to biofuels based on plants people eat, putting even small amounts of water into a car only bodes ill for the environment and human rights ahead. Meanwhile, climate change offers too much fresh water here, too little there, or too saline yet other there. Sorting out the public health/human rights of water from the ecological issues will be a stern challenge for politics at all levels of governance.

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