Executive summary -- Water security -- Profiling water security in the Middle East and North Africa -- The water …

consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it … workshop of the world. The associated relocation of the population from relatively low density rural areas to very high density … urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and …

vulnerability of the economy to these shocks. It helps clarify linkages between the country's economic performance and its water … resources endowment and management. It then uses this analysis to recommend both water resource strategies and economic and …-wide effects of water shocks. This report finds that unmitigated hydrological variability currently costs the economy over one …

Water in the Middle East and North Africa region already causes major social and economic problems, resulting from … insufficient supply, unreliable services and environmental damage. Per capita availability will fall by half by 2050, water quality … current practices change, then, the situation will worsen considerably. For years, water professionals have been advocating …

-term sustainability of ecosystems. Here, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the most water-scarce region of the world … less than ten percent of a typical country's water consumption. Every country in the region has enough water resources to … typical country's water consumption goes to agriculture. This demand depends on such factors as the structure of the economy …

The state of the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in Lebanon is not in line with the level of economic … development reached by the country. Despite the relatively high coverage rate in the water sector (78 percent), continuity of …, receives only three hours of daily water supply during the summer season. The development of the wastewater sector is still at …