Decide if you want to research a particular Middle Eastern country or a topic.

Possible Topics

Desalination [Saudi Arabia, Israel, Oman, UAE, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait use desalination]                                                       

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/rajavi2/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-jordan-and-palestinians-sign-water-project-deal.html?_r=0

http://www.kansascity.com/news/article342859/Israel-no-longer-worried-about-its-water-supply-thanks-to-desalination-plants.html  [Israel’s desalination and water recycling programs]

Use of groundwater/Conservation of groundwater sources

http://www.waterscarcitysolutions.org/  [Yemen :  will need to scroll down summaries to find Yemen]

Water Recycling

http://www.waterscarcitysolutions.org/  [Saudi Arabia:   water recycling]

 video:  http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.israel/water-conservation-israel/

Drip irrigation

video:  http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.israel/water-conservation-israel/

Campaigns to Encourage Conservation of Water

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/lebanon-beirut-water-scarcity-201482272937832167.html

http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/153/22915

Building Dams

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/mideast_water_wars_in_iraq_a_battle_for_control_of_water/2796/

http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2013/08/great-anatolian-project-water-management-panacea-crisis-multiplier-turkeys-kurds/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5XTXUKx5GA  [Iraq]

Building Dams

https://www.asee.org/documents/sections/middle-atlantic/spring-2008/02-To-Dam-Or-Not-To-Dam-An-Insight-Into-The-Environmental-Politics-Of-Rivers.pdf [background information on dams]

http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/tbw/ncc/Notes/chapter12.humans.env/pros.cons.of.large.dams.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28772478

http://mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/dams-and-politics-turkey-utilizing-water-developing-conflict  [Turkey, Syria, Iraq]

Resources for Countries

United Arab Emirates - http://www.ecomena.org/tag/water-scarcity-in-uae/

Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhIG-m5HT-Q [creation of new technology to reduce water use, water recycling and drip irrigation]

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.israel/water-conservation-israel/

Turkey, Syria, Iraq

http://mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/dams-and-politics-turkey-utilizing-water-developing-conflict  [Turkey, Syria, Iraq]

Lebanon 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/lebanon-beirut-water-scarcity-201482272937832167.html

Kuwait          http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/153/22915

Saudi Arabia              http://www.waterscarcitysolutions.org/  [Saudi Arabia:   water recycling]

Desalination[Saudi Arabia, Israel, Oman, UAE, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait all use desalination.]

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/rajavi2/lination  [brine =  salty water]