Tigris And Euphary

As human beings we started out as hunter gatherers. Humans gradually started to figure out that life would be a lot easier if they started doing things such as farming, planting crops, forming systems for hunting and more. As they realized their ideas were smart, they started making groups or ‘colonies’ of people. They went from very small groups, to large ones with hundreds of people. Having so many people living so close together in small places like like this caused chaos and disorder throughout the groups. Ancient civilizations maintained order through law codes, free will, and religion.

However in order to secure their supply they must engage in peaceful negotiations as violence would only jeapordise their share of the supply. Thus the potential for water conflict is there as tensions continue to increase between upstream and downstream nations, and perhaps overtime as the downstream nations share of the supply is further squeezed, these tensions are likely to result in conflict.

If they were deprived of this river system, the counties Turkey, Syria, and Iraq would lose their electricity and access to clean water, taking away ways to bathe, catch food, and ruining any industries they might’ve had. In Document 4, the aftermath of the Soviet’s dealing with the Aral Sea left it receded, and devoid of any healthy life because of the lack of water supply. The salinity levels increased which ruined the fishing industry, and killed out many fish species’. Two main fishing ports called Moynaq and Aralsk were abandoned, leaving fishing communities to travel 100 kilometers away from the shore. The Soviet’s interference ruined the

With this in mind, this is essentially a two-part problem; one, who is responsible for regulating who gets the water, and two, what is to be done about the increasing populations combined with the

project of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), located at www.waterlawandstandards.org. This is a searchable database of specific water laws by individual country or by region, with the ability to tailor search results to varying degrees of detail, including direct quotations from parliamentary and constitutional frameworks.

Increased access to improved water sources and sanitation facilities is the key to bringing these countries out of poverty and into prosperity. Water is essential to life on Earth and has thus been declared a human right by the UN. The US has not yet formally acknowledged this human right, a right which, if ignored, could launch regions such as the Lake Chad Basin into a violent water war. Lake Chad is used by four countries as a water source, and has shrunk by 90% in the past 50 years due to mismanagement and climate change. It is time for the United States to do what it does best: lead.

Iraq is very attractive to colonizers due to its high amounts of oil and other natural resources. this made it the perfect target for a post world war one great britain, who needed oil to supply their machinery and troops after they had used so much of it. after the ottoman empire fell after WWI, Iraq became a mandate of the British empire in 1919 and was used primarily for oil and gas. when they took over many arab states after the ottomans, they drew random borders, which mixed ethnicities and beliefs. This resulted in many conflicts between cultures, the kurds and sunnis, and made life for many in the country hard. The anti colonial movement began the next year in 1920, during the Iraqi revolts, which were

The two rivers are Tigris and Euphrates River which roughly correspond with modern day Iraq.

In the period 6,000 B.C.E-1000B.C.E, economically agriculture by the Nile was different from agriculture by the Tigris and Euphrates, and culturally the Nile impacted religion differently than in Mesopotamia which religion was impacted by the Tigris and Euphrates, while interactions between humans and the environment where the same. Economically agriculture by the Nile was different from agriculture by the Tigris and Euphrates because agriculture by the Nile depended on helpful floods while agriculture by the Tigris and Euphrates depended on luck with the vicious rivers. Culturally the Nile impacted religion differently than in Mesopotamia while their religion was impacted by the Tigris and Euphrates.

The Chad oil pipeline was started in October 2000 and was a project consisting of over 300 oil wells in Chad which was planned to extract over one billion barrels of oil. The idea was to run a 640 mile long underground pipe from Chad through Cameroon to an off shore factory where it would be loaded, funded by big companies like Exxon/Mobil, and Chevron with a sizable lone from the World Bank the project seemed like a no brainer. Chad was granted it's independence from France in 1960 and has been plagued by civil wars since mostly notably the Chadian Civil War of 2005 to 2010 which lasted just over four years due to the strained relationship with the Muslim population of the North and the non-Muslim population of the south.

Manzoor, K. P. (2011). The global water crisis: Issues and solutions. IUP Journal of Infrastructure, 9(2), 34-43.

The scarcity, depletion and polluting of water in one of the world's driest regions, is a problem that has perplexed the nations of the Middle East for decades. The riparian states of the Jordan River Basin include Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. These states are in a constant struggle over securing water rights for their respective states. The conflict over water is also overshadowed by the Arab-Israeli issues and the subsequent territorial questions. While territory is often at the forefront of the issues, securing water has also become a contributing factor in the conflicts of the past, and will continue in the future. Choices of conflict or cooperation will have to be made, given the diminishing amounts of water available.

Water is the main source of life on the Earth. It is vital for normal existence and functioning of organisms. Earth is sometimes called “water planet.” But, in fact, the number of freshwater is limited. “Only about 2 percent of the planet's water is fresh.” (How much water is there on Earth?) This water is not enough even to meet daily needs of mankind. According to World Health Organization, “a lack of water to meet daily needs is a reality today for one in three people around the world.” (2009) In the Middle East the situation is especially hard. This region is thought to be one of the droughtiest places in the world, most of it’s territory is deserted. Freshwater accounts to 1 percent of the world’s supplies, while the population comes

By 1969, the Israelis had completed the National Water Carrier, a pipeline project that pumps water from the Sea of Galilee south and west and currently supplies one-quarter of the country with water. The Arab nations have repeatedly called Israeli water harvesting practices the surest sign of "Zionist imperialism."1 Today, this language is more muted, but its undertones pervade the region's political dialogue. The past is never forgotten in the Middle East, and an understanding of hydro-politics among the Jordan riparians requires a keen awareness of this fact.

International water conflicts are on a rise. More than fifty countries on five contents will soon be in water disputes. These disputes will be over reservoirs, rivers and underground water aquifers (GPF).