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.