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Middle East water conflicts and directions for conflict resolution:

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In looking toward 2020, one of the most severe problems to be faced is an impending shortage of adequate supplies of fresh water essential for drinking and for growing crops. The Middle East, where a few waterways serve large areas of land belonging to a number of nations, is the place where strife over water is most likely to erupt. This paper examines the past how water in the Middle East came to be divided as it is today and looks at possible solutions for alleviating a water crisis and the resulting political tensions.

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  • Wolf, Aaron T., 1996. "Middle East water conflicts and directions for conflict resolution:," 2020 vision discussion papers 12, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Miguel Solanes, 1987. "The International Law Commission and Legal Principles Related to the Non‐navigational Uses of the Waters of International Rivers," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 11(4), pages 353-361, November.
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    1. Webb, Patrick & Iskandarani, Maria, 1998. "Water Insecurity and the Poor: Issues and Research Needs," Discussion Papers 279785, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
    2. Claudia W. Sadoff & Dale Whittington & David Grey, 2002. "Africa's International Rivers : An Economic Perspective," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 15175, December.
    3. Soheila Zareie & Omid Bozorg-Haddad & Hugo A. Loáiciga, 2021. "A state-of-the-art review of water diplomacy," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 2337-2357, February.
    4. John Waterbury & Dale Whittington, 1998. "Playing chicken on the Nile? The implications of microdam development in the Ethiopian highlands and Egypt's New Valley Project," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 22(3), pages 155-163, August.
    5. M.K. Mahlakeng, 2018. "China and the Nile River Basin: The Changing Hydropolitical Status Quo," Insight on Africa, , vol. 10(1), pages 73-97, January.

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