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  • India’s Strategic Autonomy Enters the Gulf Waters

    Emerging realignments in the Middle East led by the China-brokered agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran drive India to pursue greater strategic autonomy as rival regional powers diversify their foreign policy, embracing pragmatism and national interests over ideology and geopolitics.

  • A Saudi company took as much water as it wanted during Arizona drought

    But the proposal “hit a stone wall,” John Schneeman, one of the planners, told The Post. It was spurned, he said, by officials in the administration of then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R) who were “cautious of tangling with a powerful company.” The proposal also ran headlong into a view, deeply held in the rural West, that water is private property that comes with access to land, rather than a public resource.

  • Saudi begins installation of 1,350km water pipes across Riyadh

    Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture has begun installing 1,350 km of water pipes across the capital city as part of the ‘Green Riyadh‘ programme, reported SPA. This comes as part of its efforts to carry 1.7 million cu m of treated water daily to irrigate 7.5 million trees in the city. The aim is to achieve sustainable green spaces for the Green Riyadh projects and other development projects in the city, stated the report.

  • Saudi Arabia committed to helping UN efforts toward water, food security

    He was speaking at the 43rd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, which is taking place in Rome and being held to discuss relevant issues in the light of the challenges posed by water scarcity. It is also focusing on water management, with the aim of achieving food security and comprehensive support for flexible and efficient food production.

  • Biden’s green hydrogen plan hits climate obstacle: Water shortage

    Reuters interviewed six researchers who study hydrogen as green power and had exclusive access to an analysis by Rystad Energy consultancy that showed that the Biden administration's vision of low-carbon hydrogen may run into a challenge that is itself exacerbated by climate change: water scarcity.

  • Afghanistan-Iran border flare up spotlights water scarcity crisis

    Iran and Afghanistan are going head to head over control of the supply of a crucial resource that’s shrinking by the day: water. Violence along the border between the two tumultuous countries flared up in recent weeks, stoked by a dispute over the water flowing from Afghanistan’s Helmand river into Iran. Tehran says Afghanistan’s Taliban government is deliberately depriving Iran of sufficient water supplies in order to bolster its own; but the Taliban says there isn’t enough water anymore to begin with, thanks to plummeting rainfall and river levels.

  • Cold Ocean Depths Could Help Provide Freshwater for the Middle East

    While the technology has been proven at small scale, there is scope to explore mega-scale versions of the technology using precedents developed in the power industry and marine transportation sector. The early steam ships carried onboard condensers that were cooled by surface seawater to condense engine exhaust steam back into water that could then be pumped under pressure into the boilers. Large-scale condensing technology is also well-proven in coal-fired power stations.

  • IAEA denies watering down standards in Iran investigation

    The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief denied on Monday that his agency had watered down its standards in an investigation into past Iranian activities after Israel accused it of "capitulation to Iranian pressure". The dispute centres on the International Atomic Energy Agency's years-long investigation into the origin of uranium particles found at three undeclared Iranian sites, most of which appear to have been active around two decades ago.

  • Water scarcity in the Middle East: how the region is grappling with a resource crisis

    Of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world, 11 are in the Middle East and North Africa, making it one of the most affected regions in the world. Over the years, a lack of fresh water resources has been compounded by climate change, population growth, poor management and — in some places — conflict. It has reached a stage where it affects the daily lives and health of millions.

  • Water scarcity in the Middle East: how the region is grappling with a resource crisis

    Of the 17 most water-stressed countries in the world, 11 are in the Middle East and North Africa, making it one of the most affected regions in the world. Over the years, a lack of fresh water resources has been compounded by climate change, population growth, poor management and — in some places — conflict. It has reached a stage where it affects the daily lives and health of millions.