Multilateral Working Group on Water Resources
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Entry from Directory of Selected Palestinian Water-related Publications
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| TITLE: | Nature’s Apportionment and the Open Market: A Promising Solution to the Arab-Israeli Water Conflict, Water International, Volume 18, No. 1. AUTHOR(S): Hisham Zarour Jad Isaac |
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| PUBLISHER: | International Water Resources Association (IWRA) |
| PAGES: | 13 |
| PUBLICATION DATE: | 1993 |
| LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION: | English |
| ABSTRACT: | The populations and consumption levels of countries throughout the Middle East are steadily increasing and, correspondingly, their water demands. Water resources available to most of these countries remain more or less the same, if not being reduced by abusive utilization or pollution. Many now speculate that the region’s next war will be fought over water. Today’s international legislative structure is incapable of solving complex water disputes such as that of the Middle East. However, principles of international legislative provide the basis for solution. This paper presents a pragmatic, practical, and dispassionate formula compatible with the principles of international law and legitimacy for dealing with international water resources allocation problems. The presented formula is built around resolving the Middle East’s water conflict according to natural apportionment of resources and the open market approach. |
| ADDRESS FROM WHICH THE REPORT CAN BE OBTAINED: | Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), P.O. Box 891, Ramallah, West Bank. Tel: (02) 5747311/2. Fax: (02) 5747310 |
| AVAILABILITY OF REPORT: | Photocopies available at the PWA library |
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