Description
This book focuses on the impact that emerging water problems in the Middle East will have on U.S. strategic interests in that region. It provides an invaluable study for students of the Middle East as well as for seasoned analysts.
Table of Contents
Foreword -- Preface -- Water: The Next Strategic Resource -- The Legal Regime of the Nile River Basin -- Jordan River Basin Water: A Challenge in the 1990s -- Desalination Technology: An Overview -- Water Problems, Solar Solutions: Applications of Solar Thermal Energy to Water Technologies -- Direct Seawater Irrigation as a Major Food Production Technology for the Middle East -- Turkey’s Peace Pipeline -- U.S. Government Policy Structure -- Water for the Year 2000
