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Journal Article
A LAND WITHOUT WATER
2019
Overview
Global warming has already hit the Middle East hard, and projections indicate this region will suffer profound problems in coming decades as rainfall grows more unpredictable, rising temperatures accelerate evaporation and the land grows drier. Steven Gorelick, a hydrogeologist at Stanford University in California, who has done extensive research into Jordan's water crisis, says that, with so few new options for fresh water, the country \"will be centre stage in showing how a semi-arid region deals with the devastating impacts of a warmer and drier regional climate.\" The country continues over-pumping groundwater, and Ali Subah, secretary-general of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, blames the need to do so on the sharp increase in the number of refugees. Since becoming a state in 1946, Jordan has absorbed Palestinians, Iraqis and Syrians, plus smaller numbers of Sudanese, Somalis and Yemenis. The Azraq oasis is a prime example. Since the springs in Azraq dried up 30 years ago, Jordan's Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature has tried to restore the oasis.
