Total water productivity in the Middle East and North Africa is only about half the world’s average; Despite its scarcity, the region has the world’s lowest water tariffs and the highest proportion of ...

Summary The Middle East and North Africa is the most water-scarce region in the world. Nearly two-thirds of the population there are living in areas that lack sufficient renewable water resources to ...

Localized water shortages are not new in Algeria. In the summer of 2021, for instance, Algiers—the capital, which lies 165 miles to the north of Tiaret—endured interruptions in water access ...

As the planet gets hotter and its reservoirs shrink and its glaciers melt, people have increasingly drilled into a largely ...

Water scarcity is the biggest hurdle to the development of renewable power across North Africa, along with a lack of financing and governance failures, a new report says.

Water scarcity is pervasive throughout the Middle East and North Africa and getting worse. Even before the recent political turmoil, several countries in the Middle East and North Africa were ...

This means that in the Middle East and North Africa, 100 percent of the population will live with extremely high water stress by 2050. “That’s a problem not just for consumers and water ...

Water scarcity threatens the health and development of communities around the globe. Climate change is intensifying the problem, pushing governments to find more innovative, collaborative ways to ...

UN releases dire warning about water scarcity in Middle East and North Africa Subscribe for less than $9/month to access this story and all Al-Monitor reporting.

There are many implications for a warming climate, melting icebergs, increasing temperatures, coral bleaching, and water scarcity. Each of these impacts is devastating in their own right, and while… ...