Managing Water Resources in the Tigris and Euphrates Drainage Basin: An Inquiry into the Policy Process
Description:
The Tigris and Euphrates are international rivers vital to the four countries through which they flow: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The population in the region has more than doubled in less than thirty years, and irrigated agriculture, hydroelectric power generation, industrialization, and urbanization have increased. All of these developments require more water, and the dependence of the riparian nations on the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers has become apparent, as has the need f…
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Date:
August 1984
Creator:
Al-Himyari, Abbas Hussien
Partner:
UNT Libraries