Water Resources in the Middle East

Professor HILLEL SHUVAL is Director of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Hadassah Academic College-Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He served as initiator and co-chairman of the First and Second Israeli-Palestinian International Conferences on Water held in Zurich in 1992 and Antalya, Turkey, 2004.Professor HASSAN DWEIK is a Professor of Polymer and Industrial Chemistry at the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem; he served as the co-Chairman of the Second Israeli-Palestinian International Conference on Water in Antalya in 2004. He is Executive Vice President at Al-Quds University. He has published many articles on environmental issues in Palestine, in particular on water pollution and solid waste management.

• Geopolitical Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues.- Meeting Vital Human Needs: Equitable Resolution of Conflicts over Shared Water Resources of Israelis and Palestinians.- Shared Management of Palestinian and Israeli Groundwater Resources: A Critical Analysis.- Beyond the Watershed: Avoiding the Dangers of Hydro-Centricity and Informing Water Policy.- Politics and Water Management: A Palestinian Perspective.- Perceptions of Water in the Middle East: The Role of Religion, Politics and Technology in Concealing the Growing Water Scarcity.- The Karstic Flow System in Uja Area — West Bank: An Example of two Separated Flow Systems in the Same Area.- Trans-boundary Regional Issues: Jordan River and Dead Sea.- Options for a More Sustainable Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley.- A Water For Peace Strategy for the Jordan River Basin by Shifting Cropping Patterns.- A Future for the Dead Sea Basin: Water Culture among Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians.- Formulating A Regional Policy for the Future of the Dead Sea — The ‘Peace Conduit’ Alternative.- Water Trade and Water Markets.- Water Management, Infrastructure, Negotiations and Cooperation: Use of the WAS Model.- ‘Virtual Water’ in the Water Resource Management of the Arid Middle East.- Virtual Water Trade as a Policy Instrument for Achieving Water Security in Palestine.- Water Conflicts and International Water Markets.- Water Imports in the Middle East.- Turkish Water Exports: A Model for Regional Cooperation in the Development of Water Resources.- Water Transfer from Turkey to Water-Stressed Countries in the Middle East.- Manavgat River Water: A Limited Alternative Water Resource for Domestic Use in the Middle East.- Socioeconomic Development and Benefit Sharing in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin.- WaterCo-operation and Conflict Resolution.- Why States Co-operate over Shared Water: The Water Negotiations in the Jordan River Basin.- Joint Mismanagement: Reappraising the Oslo Water Regime.- Violations, Opportunities and Power along the Jordan River: Security Studies Theory Applied to Water Conflict.- U.S. Sponsored Conflict Resolution Through Cooperation in the Water Sector.- Water Allocation for Nature and the ‘End of Conflict’ Era.- Allocating Gaps of Shared Water Resources (Scarcity Index): Case Study on Palestine-Israel.- Factors Relating to the Equitable Distribution of Water in Israel and Palestine.- Groundwater Management in a Cross Boundary Case: Application to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.- Feasibility Study for Cooperation in Wastewater Treatment Plants and Landfills for Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank.- Effects of the Separation Barrier on the Viability of a Future Palestinian State.- Water as a Human Right: Understanding of Water in the Arab Countries of the Middle East.- International Water Law.- Legal Framework of Groundwater Management in the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian Territories).- Palestinian Water Authority: Developments and Challenges — Legal Framework and Capacity.- Water Resource Management.- Water Demand Management as Governance: Lessons from the Middle East and South Africa.- Water Demand Management — A Strategy to Deal with Water Scarcity: Israel as a Case Study.- Using Socio-economic Indicators for Integrated Water Resources Management: Case Study of Palestine.- Israeli Water Use Patterns: Resource Conservation and Transboundary Security.- Holistic Regional Approach to Water Management.- Impact of Climate Change.- Impacts of Global Environmental Change for Water Resources of Israeland its Neighbors: New Security Dangers and Shifting Perceptions.- Mitigating Negative Impacts of Global Warming on Water Resources of the Middle East.- The Past as a Key for the Future: Mutual Dependencies of Land Use, Soil Development, Climate and Settlement.- Water and Wastewater Technology in the Middle East.- Waste Water Management and Reuse in Jordan.- Reducing the Environmental Impact of Olive Mill Wastewater in Jordan, Palestine and Israel.- A Seeping Timebomb: Pollution of the Mountain Aquifer by Sewage.- Potential Use of New Geological Findings for Water Exploitation in the Lower Jordan Valley.- From ‘Emergency Response Coordination’ to ‘Humanitarian Protection’: The Role and Activities of the Emergency Water And Sanitation-Health (EWASH) Committee.

Aus den Rezensionen: "... Einige der wichtigsten israelischen, palastinensischen und internationalen Wasserexperten zeigen die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Wasserfrage in Israel und Palastina auf und verdeutlichen die Wichtigkeit gegenseitigen Verstandnisses, Respekts und freundschaftlichen Umgangs zwischen zwei Volkern ... Der Grossteil der Beitrage beschaftigt sich mit natur- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Aspekten der israelisch-palastinensischen Wasserversorgung, das Buch enthalt ... auch einige politische und volkerrechtliche Beitrage. Es stellt eine gute und umfassende Einfuhrung in das Themenfeld 'Wasser in Nahost' dar ..." (in: ZPol - Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft, Juli 2008)