This paper endeavors to determine what Palestinians' water rights are in the West Bank. After finding that the law governing the resource, in this case ground water accessed through springs, is inadequate to provide a right, I argue that a human right to water exists, is applicable in this...

As water becomes scarcer, its role as both a tool and target of international politics becomes more pronounced. The power dynamics of military occupation further complicate transnational water management. As evidenced by Israel's administration of Palestinian water resources, states occupying...

The goal of the assessment is to develop a balanced analysis and create awareness of the factors restricting Palestinian water sector development as well as of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of these restrictions. The assessment addresses factors such as sector governance, and...

The Palestinian territories face significant and growing shortfalls in the water supply available for domestic use. With population of approximately 4.8 million growing at an average annual rate of 2.8 percent, the domestic supply gap is projected to dramatically increase unless supply and...

Purpose This study aims to test the role of the state of occupation, represented in Israel, as one of the most significant challenges, which faces the Jordanian water security. Where Israel expands in its policy and ideology everyday its hydro-hegemony over the Jordanian waters. Hence, its acts...

The Dead Sea basin plays a major role for regional economic development (industry, tourism and agriculture) in the Middle East. This potential is threatened by the steady disappearance of the Dead Sea. Since around 1930 the water level of the Dead Sea has fallen by about 25 m, about half of this...

Israel and the Palestinian Territories face a current shortage of water resources; there is more demand than supply, and water is one of the issues at the center of the political conflict that exists between Israel and the Palestinians. The situation is marked by tensions over the control of the...

The Eastern Mediterranean region is rapidly changing. The turbolent political transition in Egypt after the Arab Spring, the civil war in Syria, the emergence of Turkey as leading regional power, the tensions between Israel and Gaza and the never-ending dispute between Turkey and the Republic of...

In this paper we develop a methodology for identifying a population group surveyed latently in the (target) survey relevant for further processing, for example poverty calculations, but surveyed explicitly in another (source) survey, not suitable for such processing. Identification is achieved...