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Burning Waters: The Hydropolitics of the Euphrates and Tigris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Gün Kut*
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Extract

The world's natural freshwater resources available for human use are more scarce than is generally assumed. This statement has already become a cliche, yet the truth it reveals is getting more apparent every day, just as is the case with other global problems which require solutions above and beyond the parochial and short term interests of individual nation states. Water scarcity has two important aspects, both with political connotations at different levels, with worldwide maldistribution of economic and natural resources being at the core of the problem.

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1993

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