water scarcity

How Morocco became Africa’s agricultural oasis

How Morocco became Africa’s agricultural oasis

With the rolling dunes of the Sahara desert overlapping its borders, Morocco may be an unlikely...
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Middle Eastern countries can overcome pressing challenges by developing a blue economy

Middle Eastern countries can overcome pressing challenges by developing a blue economy

The Blue Economy is becoming an ‘El Dorado’, a new frontier for traditionally arid and water-...
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Alternative farming on the rise in besieged Gaza

As fertile land shrinks and water crisis deepens, Palestinians are searching for different ways to...
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Climate change adaptation project in Morocco

In Morocco, over 1.7 million people who are largely dependent on agriculture and livestock have...
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Egyptian invention cuts rice irrigation water by half

Experts and stakeholders in Egypt warn of imminent water poverty as a result of the Ethiopian...
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Project Myaah: an entrepreneurial approach to Egypt’s water crisis

Enactus Ryerson brings much-needed water filtration system to Egypt. In Egypt, two out of five...
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Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in drylands

IIED is looking at ways to strengthen resilience in crisis-hit dryland regions, focusing initially...
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"Without the Nile there is no life"

As construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam continues, Egypt’s farmers brace for further...
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Investing in water around the Mena region

Water availability per person per year has declined sharply over the last 50 years and is today a...
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Farming without soil seen as solution in land without water

Growing lettuce in the desert is not most people's idea of how to make a success of farming, but...
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How a flow of people affects the flow of water

Refugee exodus reshapes the Syrian hydrological landscape. While the human cost of the war in Syria...
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Nile Water Lab

The conditions and implications of river basin development projects in the Nile Basin and around...
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