water

Syria conflict: The biblical river at the heart of a water war

The flashpoint for Syria's war, six years old this March, has in recent days taken the form of an...
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Battered By Climate Change, Nile Farmers Forge New Course

For a farmer who had just been told that almost everything he’d ever known about agriculture was...
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Water services for about 400,000 rural Tunisians

Phase II of an African Development Bank-funded water program in Tunisia will improve water services...
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Water Wars? Lessons from the Middle East & North Africa

Why haven’t we worked on water and conflict in the region I cover? Aren’t there plenty of reasons...
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Water and Gender: gender analysis in water programmes

Gender-sensitive indicators are essential means to understand the roles, the needs and the...
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A new modern irrigation technology

A young engineer from the town of El-Houdh, Tunisia, has implemented a modern irrigation technique...
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What should Jordan’s irrigation agency do to keep supplying water?

The Cost of Irrigation Water in the Jordan Valley, a WPP-funded report published this month, looks...
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Inspiring stories from the MENA region: Women & Water Integrity

Alchabbar story could be considered evidence that women can play an effective role in enhancing...
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Lebanon: Chronic pollution in Litani River and Lake Qaraoun

As Lebanon continues to struggle under the weight of a myriad environmental crises, which include...
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Palestine: the establishment of the water sector regulatory council

The water sector in Palestine faces many challenges, among them insufficient water availability,...
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Jordan: the eco-villages project

In Arabic, EDAMA means “sustainability”. This professional association was created in 2010 and...
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Morocco: 1,200 Farmers Refuse to Pay Royalties on Water Used for Irrigation

A report exposed 1,200 farmers from the Souss-Massa-Drâa region who refused to pay royalties on the...
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