Fresh Water: General Resources
- AquaStat (extensive information and data about water scarcity for dozens of countries, from the UN FAO)
- The UN has produced a Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World
- Water: Critical Shortages Ahead? and The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems (from the World Resources Institute)
- Freshwater data tables (in PDF format, from the WRI's World Resources 1998-99 report)
- EnvironConcern for the Protection of Water (from the University of Texas)
- SOAS Water Issues Group (see especially their Water Resources Database)
- International Arid Lands Consortium
- National Drought Mitigation Center Homepage
- NDMC's Drought-Related Links Page
- Water Resource Economics (from a course taught by Jeffrey Jordan at the University of Georgia; includes separate pages with Water Links and a Fluid Unit Conversion Table)
Regional Resources
- Water Resources of the United States (from the USGS)
- Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN)
- The African Water Page (from Len Abrams)
Conflict over Rivers and Lakes
- Research by Aaron Wolf on Conflict And Cooperation involving International Waterways
- Water Wars: Shortage in the Middle East
- Atlas of Freshwater Conflicts (from Green Cross International)
Claims involving Cross-Border Rivers or Lakes
Gabcikovo-Nagymaros (Hungary vs. Slovakia)
Tigris-Euphrates River (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)
- Clive Lipchin, "Water Scarcity, International Security and Resource Disputes - The Case of the Tigris-Euphrates and Jordan Basin River Systems"
- Water Problems in the Arab World (from the International Model Arab League)
- The Ataturk Dam (from the Trade-Environment Database)
- The UN FAO's AquaStat page offers information on water scarcity in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
- Tigris-Euphrates Basin (from the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Water Issues between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (from the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Jordan River Basin (Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan)
- Stephan Libiszewski, "Water Disputes in the Jordan Basin Region and their Role in the Resolution of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
- Max Kirschbaum, "Water Resources: Security Impacts in the Jordan River Basin"
- The Water Conflicts in the Middle East from a Palestinian Perspective (from the ARIJ)
- Miriam Lowi, "Political and Institutional Responses to Transboundary Water Disputes in the Middle East"
- Jad Isaac and Leonardo Hosh, "Roots of the Water Conflict in the Middle East"
- Jonathan Kuttab and Jad Ishaq, "Approaches to the Legal Aspects of the Conflict on Water Rights in Palestine/Israel"
- Jad Isaac, "Dry Peace In the Middle East?"
- The UN FAO's AquaStat page offers information on water scarcity in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon; no information is currently provided for Israel
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