Water Resources in Syria: Reality and Future

Abbas Hindi And Dhahir Abdul Zahra Al-Rubaei, Zahraa

	Water Resources in Syria: Reality and Future
مجلة ابحاث البصرة للعلوم الأنسانیة
Article 1, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-201 PDF (0 K)
Author
Zahraa Abbas Hindi and Dhahir Abdul Zahra Al-Rubaei
Abstract
Water is gaining particular importance in all countries of the world, including Syria, is the basis of life. As quantities vary from one country to another. And water resources areOf problems in the search area because of varying quantities of connecting to it from the upstream State (Turkey) and greed (Israel) to seize a section of the waters in the occupied territories as well as classified within the area dry or semi-arid and most rivers, common or transient with countries in its vicinity, geographical, which threatens the security and integrity of these resources in spite of the international conventions concluded between the riparian States on the Euphrates River in particular.And imposes the need to increase the population development of water resources to meet the needs of water for drinking and domestic use and agricultural and industrial, power generation, and thus it is no longer a cheap source of water, as several economic good has a price bought and sold. And it has to be state-ofinsurance of their water resources on an ongoing basis as it provides security of the political and the military. As water is a weapon more deadly than nuclear, biological and chemical together and through the research it became clear that a water deficit future up to (17) Milirm 3 annually a minimum of in Syria, because what Syria possesses water resources of surface and groundwater does not exceed 10 billion m 3 per year, while it needs to (27) billion m 3 per year to cover future water needs throughout the state.
Keywords
Water Resources; Syria; reality; future

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