Experts predict that the acquisition of fresh water will soon supersede that of oil as a main source of international tension. The world's increasing population and industrialization are raising the level of pollutants and toxins, tainting water sources that could be used for consumption or...

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...

Intro -- Cooperating Rivals -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State-Building and Water Development, 1920-1956 -- 3. Water Development and Conflict,1957-1967 -- 4. The Yarmouk, 1967-1994 -- 5. The West Bank and Gaza, 1948-1992 -- 6. The 1990s...

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Hydrography and history 7 -- Hydrography 7 -- History - Water con.ict and cooperation 12 -- 3 Towards an interdisciplinary approach to water basin analysis and the resolution of international water disputes 86 -- Introduction 86 -- The nature of water...