Water Scarcity Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

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Publication Title	Water Scarcity Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Publication Type	Thematic Paper of the 2006 Human Development Report
Author(s)	SIWI (Stockholm International Water Institute), Håkan Tropp and Anders Jägerskog
Publication Date	2006
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Publication URL	http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2006/papers/SIWI2.pdf
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Summary

The paper focuses on water resources status, rapid urbanisation and intensifying water competition between urban and rural areas and between nation states in the Middle East and Northern Africa region. Since irrigated agriculture dominates water use, special attention is paid to water options -- technological, governance and virtual water -- within irrigated agriculture.