From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water disputes

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From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water disputes

Decades of agreements and water-sharing deals have often exacerbated tensions rather than resolving themOriginally published on Global VoicesView of the Euphrates River in Turkey in 1994 with the recently completed Ataturk Dam and resultant reservoir. Picture uploaded to Flickr by NASA Johnson. CC BY-NC 2.0 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on February 15, 2025. This edited version was translated into Engli…