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Palestinians are filling containers with water at a desalination plant in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 17 July 2024. [Getty]

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North Gaza's largest desalination plant closes down

"I don't know how I will provide drinking water for my children. How will I tell them that they must remain thirsty!" Barakat told The New Arab.

Rasha Jalal

04 December, 2024

Why Egypt's water scarcity problem goes deeper than the Nile

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Why Egypt's water scarcity problem runs deeper than the Nile

The New Arab

23 January, 2024

How harvesting air breathes life into MENA's water crisis

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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

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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

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Climate start-ups in South Asia are a necessary alternative

Anmol Irfan

26 September, 2023

Water stress worsens food insecurity crisis in Arab states

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Water stress worsens food insecurity crisis in Arab states

Mohammed El Said

Mohammed El-Said

26 September, 2023

Tigris

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Iraq's two main rivers will vanish if new dams not built

Dana Taib Menmy

31 July, 2023

Mesopotamian Marshes

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The weaponisation of water and Iraq's climate catastrophe

Saoud Khalaf

12 January, 2023

A sinking feeling: World's vulnerable struggle to stay afloat

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World's vulnerable tread carefully as water crisis worsens

Rabina Khan

15 November, 2022

NE Syria farmers

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How a Turkish-led crisis is affecting Syrian female farmers

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

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Women and children in troubled waters over Somalian drought

Sahirah Javaid

11 August, 2022

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Morocco to implement new measures tackling water scarcity

The New Arab Staff

23 July, 2022

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Iran arrests several after protests at drying lake

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

17 July, 2022

Jordan dead sea

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How to save Jordan from a climate disaster

Zoe H. Robbin

19 April, 2022

This picture taken on October 13, 2021, shows a woman and children filling tanks with water at the Shahrak Sabz Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Herat province. - Drought stalks the parched fields around the remote Afghan district of Bala Murghab, where climate change is proving a deadlier foe than the country's recent conflicts.

Environment and Climate

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A rising tide floods all houses: Refugees and climate change

Milica Cosic

22 March, 2022

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35% of Gazans can now drink freshwater at home: official

Sally Ibrahim

15 March, 2022

Iraq lake

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Iraq's second largest lake drying up, turning up dead fish

The New Arab Staff & Agencies

22 February, 2022