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http://freshwater.unep.net/
Website of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), which includes
information on the best practices, conferences, policy and strategy
documents, etc. and has an important links section to websites related
to global water assessments and announcements.
www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu
Website hosted by Oregon University; includes an Atlas of International
Freshwater Agreements (documents and maps); a searchable Transboundary
Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD); a Transboundary Freshwater Spatial
Database (biophysical, socioeconomic, and geopolitical data relating
to international river basins); an international water event database,
documenting historical international water relations from 1948 to 1999;
and an International River Basin Register listing the world's international
river basins.
www.iah.org/
Website of the International Hydrogeologists Association, which focuses
on groundwater issues. Has news on groundwater events, conferences, materials
and information on hydrogeology and groundwater as well as related links.
There is also an online version of the Hydrogeology Journal (members
only).
www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/agl/aglw/aquastat/main/index.stm
Website of AQUASTAT, FAO's global information system of water and agriculture
providing information on the state of agricultural water management across
the world, with emphasis on developing countries and countries in transition.
Contains a database, country profiles, regional overviews, maps, institutions,
water resources, documents links and a glossary.
www.fao.org/Legal/Prs-OL/isarm.pdf | 
Internationally Shared (Transboundary) Aquifer Resources Management -
Their Significance and Sustainable Management: A Framework Document,
IHP Non-Serial Publications on Hydrology (SC-2001/WS/40), Paris: UNESCO,
2001.
www.emwis.org
The site of the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on the know-how
in the water sector - an information and knowledge exchange tool on water
issues (e.g., institutions, documentation, training, research & development,
and data management) among the Euro-Mediterranean partnership countries.
www.thewaterpage.com/index.htm
Initiative dedicated to the promotion of sustainable water resources
management and use with emphasis on the development, utilization and
protection of water in Africa and other developing regions. Has lots
of informational and educational features, incl. articles, documents,
pictures, databases, as well as legal subjects.
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www.fao.org/docrep/W7414B/W7414B00.htm
Website of FAO includes the text of treaties concerning the non-navigational
uses of International Watercourse in Africa.
www.dundee.ac.uk/law/iwlri
Website of the International Water Law Research Institute (IWLRI) at
Dundee University, Scotland. Includes reports, materials on water law
and policy research and university courses, information on advisory/consultancy
services to national governments, commissions, donors, NGOs, etc., and
information on conferences and other activities. It also has an electronic
Law Library with a unique collection of sources in both international
and national water law, as well as a useful list of links.
www.fao.org/Legal/legstud/ls65-e.pdf |
Sources of International Water Law including treaties, conventions, resolutions
and declarations.
www.fao.org/docrep/003/x9419e/x9419e00.htm#Contents
FAO publication - Legislative Study 70 - directed at policymakers, lawmakers
and government administrators: Water Rights Administration - Experience,
Issues and Guidelines.
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http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf
Website of the United Nations Information System on the Question of
Palestine (UNISPAL), which contains the texts of current and historical
UN material
concerning Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation.
Search documents by ‘subject’, then ‘water’.
http://waternet.rug.ac.be/
Website of the Department of Third World Studies, University of Gent,
on the role of water in conflict and cooperation, with focus on the Israeli-Palestinian
water conflict and the Jordan River Basin; includes announcements, conference
information, articles, legal issues, and links.
www.btselem.org/
See link on The Water Crisis in the Occupied Territories.
http://exact-me.org/
Website of the Executive Action Team (EXACT) Multilateral Working Group
on Water Resources with information on publications, projects, and institutions
as well as links and an online textbook entitled WaterCare jointly prepared
by Jordanian, Israeli, and Palestinian writers and available in English,
Arabic and Hebrew.
www.arij.org/
Website of the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ), a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the Palestinian
territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater
control over their natural resources. Has lots of online articles, reports
and other publications on issues related to land, water and environment
in Palestine.
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/deadsea.htm
Case study on the Dead Sea Canal of the Trade and Environment Database,
American University, The School of International Service, Washington.
www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/JORDAN.HTM
Case study on the Jordan River Dispute of the Trade and Environment Database,
American University, The School of International Service, Washington.
www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ice/GAZA.HTM
Case study on Water and Conflict in the Gaza Strip of the Trade and Environment
Database, American University, The School of International Service, Washington.
www.nad-plo.org/permanent/water.html
Page by the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department on Water as one
of the permanent status issues.
www.cesr.org/PROGRAMS/waterpalestine.htm
Page of the Center for Social and Economic Rights on the Palestinian
Right to Water.
www.mni.gov.il/english/units/water/water.shtml
The website on Israel’s water sector from the Israeli Ministry
of National Infrastructure.
www.iepic.org.il/pages/iepic/index_eng.html
Website of the Israeli Environmental Policy Information Center; has articles,
information on legislation, and a newsletter.
www.al-bab.com/arab/env/water.htm
Water portal of the Arab Gateway, includes books, articles and links
and is sub-organized into the categories ‘regional overview,’ ‘Nile
Basin,’ ‘Palestine & Israel,’ ‘Jordan Basin,’ ‘Tigris & Euphrates,’ and ‘Arabian
peninsula’.
http://water1.geol.upenn.edu/
Website of the Middle East Water Information Network with its web-accessible
Middle East Water Database, containing some 10,000 catalogued entries,
sorted by classification, country, or basin.
www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/Home.html
Website of the SOAS (School of Oriental & African Studies) Water
Issues Group, has articles, a water resource database and online newsletters.
www.idrc.ca/waterdemand/docs/english/index_eng. shtml
Website of the Water Demand Management forum’s Middle East and
North Africa section; contains articles, documentation, a newsletter,
bibliographies, articles, project reports and a directory of water-related
institutions in the region.
www.smuc.ac.uk/RiversWEB/sources/middle_east_ water.htm
Online sources on Hydropolitics in the Middle East.
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/ water.html
Resource page on Water in the Middle East of Columbia University’s
library.
www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/research-g/water.html
MERIA’s online research guide on Middle East water issues.
www.medrc.org.om/
Website of the Middle East Desalination Center.
www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80859e/80859E00.htm#Contents
Full text online version of the book Hydropolitics along the Jordan River
- Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Aaron
T. Wolf. www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/water/zaslavsky.html
“Definition of Israel’s Water Problems” or “Water as
a Metaphor,” article by Dan Zaslavsky.
http://desip.igc.org/TheftOfWater.html
“
Israel's Appropriation of Arab Water: An Obstacle to Peace” by
Ronald Bleier, Middle East Labor Bulletin, Spring 1994.
www.bankwatch.org/downloads/waterforpalestine.pdf |
A Critical Assessment of the European Investment Bank’s Lending
Strategy in the Rehabilitation of Water Resources in the Southern West
Bank.
www.yale.edu/environment/publications/bulletin/103pdfs/103shamir.pdf |
Water Agreements between Israel and Its Neighbors. By Uri Shamir.
www.internationalwaterlaw.org/Bibliography/IWL-general.htm
Online Bibliography on International Water Law.
http://usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/press/worldbnk/ archive/
march/wb1_3-20.htm
World Bank report on the Water Crisis in Mideast, North Africa.
www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/wps2000series/
wps2045/wps2045.pdf |
Water Challenge and Institutional Response: A Cross Country Perspective.
By Saleth, R. Maria and Ariel Dinar. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1999.
www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jpap/dolat.htm
“
Water Diplomacy in the Middle East,” by Mostafa Dolatyar
www.un.org/Depts/dhl/me_water.htm
Online bibliography on Water Resources in the Middle East by the United
Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/journal/1998/issue1/
jv2n1a7.html
“
Watersheds and Problemsheds: Explaining the Absence of Armed Conflict
Over Water in the Middle East,” by Tony Allan, MERIA Journal, Volume
2, No. 1 ( March 1998).
www.mideastnews.com/WaterWars.htm
“
The next major conflict in the Middle East Water Wars,” lecture
by Adel Darwish, Conference on Environment and Quality of Life, Geneva,
June 1994.
www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/
AcrobatFiles/OCC15.PDF |
“
Israel and Water in the Framework of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” by
J. A. Allan, SOAS, 1999.
www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/
AcrobatFiles/OCC13.PDF |
“
The quality and sustainability of the water resources available to Arab
villages to the west of the divide in the southern West Bank,” by
D. S. Scarpa.
www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/
AcrobatFiles/OCC31.pdf |
The Jordan River Basin: explaining interstate water co-operation through
regime theory,” by Anders Jägerskog, SOAS, 2001.
www2.soas.ac.uk/Geography/WaterIssues/OccasionalPapers/
AcrobatFiles/OCC41.pdf |
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The sanctioned discourse - a crucial factor for understanding water policy
in the Jordan River Basin,” by Anders Jägerskog, SOAS, 2002.
www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/EPdirect/EPan0006.htm
“
Water Resources Issues in the Arab States Region,” by Alain Marcoux.
www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/pubs/19990819pb.html
“
Water and Palestinian-Israeli Peace Negotiations,” by Jad Isaac,
1999.
http://waternet.rug.ac.be/waterpolicy.htm
“
Israeli Water Policy in a Regional Context of Conflict: Prospects for
Sustainable Development for Israelis and Palestinians?” by Stefan
Deconinck, 2002.
www.ifpri.org/2020/briefs/number31.htm
“
Middle East Water Conflicts and Directions for Conflict Resolution” by
Aaron T. Wolf, April 1996.
www.akdeniz.edu.tr/muhfak/publications/gap.html
“
Water Resources in the Middle East: Forthcoming Problems and Solutions
for Sustainable Development of the Region,” by Bülent Topkava,
July 1998.
www.ciaonet.org/isa/dis01/
“
The Israeli-Palestinian Water Conflict and its Resolution: A View through
International Relations Theory,” by Shlomi Dinar, 1999.
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