Water Crisis Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq and Its Implications
Water Crisis Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq and Its Implications

Author: Samreen Aamir

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

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The goal of this study is to look into the hidden dangers of water disputes among Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. Everyone is aware of the fact that natural resources like water is the building block of development of any country. Water is a valuable resource that is becoming increasingly scarce. With the passage of time, a sharp increase in population rise and, rise in food demand will be observed. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, together, are vital to Syria's and Iraq's economy and domestic requirements. According to some estimates, the River Euphrates provides around 85% of Syria's total renewable water supply, while River Tigris and River Euphrates together provide about 100% of Iraq's supply. Turkey accounts for 88.7% of the Euphrates basin's total water potential. The researchers have employed qualitative methodology for the research underhand and adopted thematic analysis as research method for this study. Researchers analyzed different research studies related to the issue and considered cases to the research-based statements of the individuals in power on the issue of water. Researchers looked at a variety of research studies on the topic and compared them to research-based claims made by individuals in positions of power on the topic of water.

Water Conflict Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Water Conflict Between Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Author: Ercan A. Cakmak

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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The states in the various regions of the world express that they will be able to set aside serious struggles to meet their water needs. However, since the 1980's Syria and Iraq, the southern neighbors of Turkey, have put forward some claims regarding the waters of Euphrates and Tigris originating from Turkey. These countries have tried various methods to hinder the workings on these rivers started by Turkey. Turkey states that the waters of Euphrates and Tigris are a symbol of peace and stability in the region for all three countries and that there is no problem to allocate it to her neighbors. This Strategy Research Project will illustrate the significance of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers originating from Turkey and providing important water resources for Syria and Iraq. It will also explore the GAP project improved by Turkey to utilize the waters of these rivers rationally and summarize the thesis of riparian countries regarding the sharing of waters.

The Euphrates Triangle
The Euphrates Triangle

Author: Frederick M. Lorenz

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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For more than 4,000 years, lands irrigated by the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers have been the scene of violent conflict. History has been shaped by geography and, in particular, by access to water. The Southeastern Anatolia Project (Guneydogu Anadolu Projesi, or GAP) is a major reclamation and hydropower project that has been a Turkish Government priority since 1961. When complete, the 22-dam project will irrigate an additional 1.7 million hectares (about 4.2 million acres) in southeast Turkey. The GAP has direct consequences for Iraq and Syria. Both countries are heavily dependent on the waters of the Tigris and the Euphrates, and the impact of the project could ultimately reduce the flow of fresh water to Syria and to Iraq. These transboundary water issues have the potential to further destabilize an already tense region as the GAP approaches full development in the next 20 years. A 1988 article in U.S. News and World Report described a frightening scenario: November 12, 1993. War erupted throughout the Middle East today in a desperate struggle for dwindling water supplies. Iraqi forces, attempting to smash a Syrian blockade, launched massive attacks on the Euphrates River valley. Syria answered with missile attacks on Baghdad. The envisioned scenario has not materialized some 10 years after its dire prediction, but security conditions in the Tigris-Euphrates basin are unstable and the potential for "water wars" is still present. Resource scarcity is an important factor in any security analysis, and the realm of environmental security is subject to renewed debate in the United States. This book explores the relationship between regional security and the river environment of the Tigris-Euphrates basin. The focus will be on Turkey, because a review of Turkish history, politics, and military capability is central to an understanding of the security issues concerning the GAP. -- p. 1.

Negotiating International Water Rights
Negotiating International Water Rights

Author: Muserref Yetim

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0857729535

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Transboundary watercourses account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Yet the indeterminate status of water rights in many international watercourses presents a problem and many attempts to resolve water rights issue have failed. Knowing how and where negotiations fail is essential if successful resolution is to be achieved. Muserref Yetim's important book seeks to illustrate a means to the peaceful resolution of natural resource based conflicts. Through a detailed study of the Tigris-Euphrates water conflict, involving Turkey, Syria and Iraq, countries of vital security interest to the world at large, the author clarifies the collective action dilemmas confronting Middle Eastern watercourses and reveals the bargaining bottlenecks where negotiations fail. She develops an original framework that explains bargaining failures and proposes conditions for creating a new property rights regime among watercourse states that offers a route to governing their shared water resources in ways that are politically, economically and environmentally sound. In almost all water scarce regions, international water resources are subject to intense unilateral exploitation in a highly competitive fashion. And as demand for freshwater continues to increase, through increasing urbanization and the continuing development of societies, so the issue of how such shared water resources can best be governed is becoming vitally important. Negotiating International Water Rights offers both a timely contribution to a matter of international concern and important insights into resource conflict in countries of vital security interest to the world at large.

Basra is Thirsty
Basra is Thirsty

Author: Belkis Wille

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 9781623137502

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"For almost 30 years, including during the period of occupation by the US- and UK-led Coalition Provisional Authority, authorities in Iraq have failed to provide Basra's 4 million residents with safe drinking water. The water crisis came to a head in 2018, when at least 118,000 people were hospitalized with rashes, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea because of contamination of the water in the Shatt al-Arab, the river Basra sits on. A severe water shortage from upstream has led to seawater incurring into the Shatt al-Arab so that farmers have had to irrigate their land with salt water - losing most of their produce over the last decade. This continuing water crisis is a result of a complex combination of factors including mismanagement of upstream flows leading to too little water coming to Basra; pollution in Basra and further upstream, including raw sewage, garbage, oil spills, and industrial and agricultural waste; damming by neighboring Iran and Turkey; and climate change. Corruption, including by local authorities, has also led to illegal use of precious freshwater resources. Since last summer the government has refused to make public any of its investigations into why the water poisoned people. Nor has it announced any significant measures to improve the quality of water in Basra in coming years. Iraqi authorities have an obligation to secure Basrawis' right to use their land and to safe drinking water and to inform the public when water sources are unsafe. Where authorities have violated these rights, they should ensure that people can access an effective remedy against those responsible"--Page 4 of cover

Water and Conflict in the Middle East
Water and Conflict in the Middle East

Author: Marcus Dubois King

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0197566863

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This volume explores the role of water in the Middle East's current economic, political and environmental transformations, which are set to continue in the near future. In addition to examining water conflict from within the domestic contexts of Iraq, Yemen and Syria-- all experiencing high levels of instability today--the contributors shed further light on how conflict over water resources has influenced political relations in the region. They interrogate how competition over water resources may precipitate or affect war in the Middle East, and assess whether or how resource vulnerability impacts fragile states and societies in the region and beyond. Water and Conflict in the Middle East is an essential contribution to our understanding of turbulence in this globally significant region.

Turkey's Water Policy
Turkey's Water Policy

Author: Aysegul Kibaroglu

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3642196365

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Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is crucial to social and economic development. Turkey’s current national water regime that emphasises water resources development and management for productive uses, however, faces growing environmental concerns and international criticism regarding transboundary water cooperation. Furthermore, EU accession requires Turkey to adopt an extensive and ambitious body of EU water law. To understand Turkey’s position to international water law, the national policies and socio-economic circumstances that impact water resources management need to be considered. This book fills the existing knowledge gap through a broad perspective and analysis of the current state of Turkey’s water policy and its management of both national and transboundary waters. It is a unique undertaking that brings together Turkish and international authors, practitioners and academics, covering all aspects of water management