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Iraq water crisis
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq launches regional water initiative amid historic shortages

The decline is attributed to climate-related factors—including poor rainfall and melting snow—and upstream water projects in neighbouring countries.

Dana Taib Menmy
28 May, 2025
As reservoirs dry up, authorities are slashing agricultural output to preserve drinking supplies [Getty]
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq's water reserves fall to 80-year low, official warns

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 May, 2025
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Iraq water scarcity
Environment and Climate
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Erbil struggles with water shortages ahead of scorching summer

Winthrop Rodgers

Winthrop Rodgers

29 April, 2025
Displaced Palestinians line up to fill their containers with water in Gaza City, on April 12, 2025.
Gaza War
MENA
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Gazans face growing shortages as clean water sources dwindle

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 April, 2025
Palestinians are filling containers with water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 17 July 2024. [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
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North Gaza's largest desalination plant closes down

Rasha Jalal
04 December, 2024
Lebanon IDPS
Lebanon-Israel conflict
Society
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Rising Lebanon IDP numbers fuel fears of a water and food crisis

Suzanne Abou Said

Suzanne Abou Said

10 October, 2024
Sudan water
Sudan
Environment and Climate
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Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperatures soar

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

23 June, 2024
occupied East Jerusalem
MENA
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Israel 'cut water supplies' to East Jerusalem area amid heatwave

The New Arab Staff
14 June, 2024
Jordan
MENA
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Jordan requests Israel to extend water deal by a year: Kan

The New Arab Staff
04 March, 2024
Why Egypt's water scarcity problem goes deeper than the Nile
Egypt
Environment and Climate
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Why Egypt's water scarcity problem runs deeper than the Nile

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

23 January, 2024
How harvesting air breathes life into MENA's water crisis
water crisis
Environment and Climate
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Could harvesting air breathe life into MENA's water crisis?

Mohammed El Said

Mohammed El-Said

19 December, 2023
With no water, Gazans are staring at death by dehydration
Gaza War
Society
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With no water, Gazans are staring at death by dehydration

Salam AbuSharar

Salam AbuSharar

26 October, 2023
Climate start-ups in South Asia offer a necessary alternative
climate crisis
Environment and Climate
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Climate start-ups in South Asia are a necessary alternative

Anmol Irfan

Anmol Irfan

26 September, 2023
Water stress worsens food insecurity crisis in Arab states
water crisis
Environment and Climate
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Water stress worsens food insecurity crisis in Arab states

Mohammed El Said

Mohammed El-Said

26 September, 2023
Tigris
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq's two main rivers will vanish if new dams not built

Dana Taib Menmy
31 July, 2023
Mesopotamian Marshes
Iraq
Environment and Climate
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The weaponisation of water and Iraq's climate catastrophe

Saoud Khalaf

Saoud Khalaf

12 January, 2023
A sinking feeling: World's vulnerable struggle to stay afloat
COP27
Society
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World's vulnerable tread carefully as water crisis worsens

Rabina Khan

Rabina Khan

15 November, 2022
NE Syria farmers
COP27
Society
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How a Turkish-led crisis is affecting Syrian female farmers

Yiyao Yang

Yiyao Yang

08 November, 2022
Hawa Mohamed Isack (R), 60, drinks water at a water distribution point at Muuri camp, one of the 500 camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in town, in Baidoa, Somalia
Somalia
Society
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Women and children in troubled waters over Somalian drought

Sahirah Javaid

Sahirah Javaid

11 August, 2022
Morocco
MENA
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Morocco to implement new measures tackling water scarcity

The New Arab Staff
23 July, 2022
Iran
MENA
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Iran arrests several after protests at drying lake

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 July, 2022