How to Improve Water Resources Management in the Middle East? The Call for a Locally-Based Water Security

Due to multiplier factors such as climate change, desertification, rapid population growth and industrialisation, water has become increasingly scarce in the Middle East. The categorisation of water security as an existential “threat” gives the state a licence to use exceptional measures to address water scarcity, including securitising the field and diminishing measures of transparency and accountability.

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As in times of a growing pandemic, the urgency and emergency measures often lead to the exclusion of civil society, academia and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the decision-making process...