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Long-form stories about the rivers, aquifers and coasts that shape water in the Middle East and North Africa. Each is reported from public sources and built around its own maps and data.

Blue water-main pipe and valves in an excavated trench
Utilities · Non-revenue water

Reducing Non-Revenue Water Could Provide MENA With New Water

In several of the region’s countries, between a quarter and a half of the water put into city networks earns no revenue. How utilities locate these losses, and why so much of the water remains lost.

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The industrial shoreline of Ras Laffan, Qatar
The Gulf · Desalination & conflict

One Sea, One Strait: How 2026 Strikes Exposed the Gulf’s Desalination Vulnerability

About a third of the world’s desalination capacity sits around one narrow, contested sea. In 2026 attacks on plants on both shores were reported, with responsibility disputed.

Salt formations on the shore of the Dead Sea
Dead Sea · Jordan, Israel & Palestine

The Disappearing Sea: How Water Diversions Are Shrinking the Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is falling by about a metre a year, and its shoreline is retreating with it. More than 6,000 sinkholes have opened, the Jordan is largely used up before it arrives, and a proposed rescue canal was never built.

Ancient agricultural terraces in the Haraz Mountains
Yemen · Groundwater collapse

Sanaa’s Water Crisis: How Unchecked Drilling Overwhelmed an Ancient Water System

In ancient times Yemen was among the world’s leaders in farming a dry country. With the arrival of modern drilling, the water table beneath Sanaa began a steep decline.

Reed beds in the Mesopotamian marshes near Nasiriyah
Iraq, Türkiye & Syria · The Tigris and Euphrates

Iraq’s Shrinking Lifelines: How Dams and Drought Are Drying the Tigris and Euphrates

The rivers that sustained some of the earliest irrigation now reach Iraq with less water and more salt. Upstream dams have reduced their flow, the marshes have been drained and partly restored, and the basin is shared without a treaty.

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