Resource Shortage

Water is an essential commodity for human existence. It is used for consumption, maintaining public health, agriculture, industry, and for transportation. Serious water scarcities will affect virtually every aspect of human life. Water resources are enormously skewed geographically, and many countries with lower water availability also have high rates of population growth. This will exacerbate their water shortage in the future. Many countries are also highly dependent on water that originates outside their borders. For …

…In the case of Israel and Syria, an agreement has to be worked out on the use of groundwater on both sides of the Israeli-Syrian border in order to ensure that the integrity of shared groundwater reservoirs are preserved (Haddadin). References: Alam, Undala Z. Questioning the water wars rationale: A case study of the Indus waters treaty, The Geographical Journal, Dec 2002 Haddadin, Munther J. Water in the Middle East peace process, The Geographical Journal, Dec 2002