Water Issues in the Middle East

Some of the largest oil reserves are in the Arab world located in dry places. Demand for water is increasing, where they are few rivers.

Climate changes where temperature will rise and increase in the population where they will reach over six hundred million.

Middle Eastern governments provide cheap or free water to their people although in the future water will be scarce.

Yemen, where it is the poorest Arab country imports eighty to ninety percent of its food. Mahmoud Shidiwah says that Sana’a will run dry in six years.

In the Arab world; Jordan, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and the UAE will be short in water supply where Turkey has a surplus but unwilling to share.

They just realized the problem and now built around one thousand five hundred plants to provide drinking water to the Middle East and North Africa.

Riches await as Earth icy north melts

Countries are fighting over their territories in the Arctic, the reason for that is the ice is melting and there is a race for oil, fish, diamonds, minerals and shipping routes.

The Arctic has twenty five percent of the world undiscovered oil and gas, where Russia estimated profits from their stake would be approximately two trillion dollars.

In 2005, Russia was the first to send an exploration vessel without an ice breaker help because it had a modernized design where it could break its way through the ice using its stern.

American transportation has bought an unutilized Northwest Passage, which was bought for a few dollars.

Few years ago, reports indicate that it would take one hundred years for the ice to melt although recent studies say that it may happen within ten to fifteen years, so the five countries are rushing to claim their territories and at the same time wanting to get a bigger portion.

Desert horsemen keep the pace

The RAK police headed by Lt Col Khaled Hamad Al Merri petrol the remote areas in the desert looking for trouble makers, while on horses using mobiles and walkie-talkies for communication.

In the past, the idea of patrolling came from the Second Caliph in Islam. The horsemen use silence as a weapon.

For several years Lt Col Al Merri has tried recruiting emarati horsemen but still not succeeded in doing that.

The horsemen go out in groups while having a break in the hotter season so when winter season comes they increase their patrols due to the vacation where most people camp.

What’s good about horses is that they could reach remote areas where cars can’t reach. To not over exhaust the horses they work in shifts of four hours where they are over protective and love their horses.