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Article Excerpt
Oil has always been thought of as the traditional cause of conflict in the Middle East past and present. No longer. Now, most borders have been set, oil fields mapped and reserves accurately estimated--unlike the water resources, which are still often unknown.
Water is taking over from oil as the likeliest cause of conflict throughout the Middle East, where the natural facts of water supply and the socio political facts of water control, consumption and demand interplay to form a complex hydro-political web. The allocations of the region's three major river basins--the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris and the Jordan--are nascent sources of tension, and potential sources of conflict. However of all the Middle East's river basins, it is the Jordan River that hosts the most fraught and inflammable dispute, and so for the two following reasons:
The most serious...
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