What does the Arab world do when it's water runs out?

the U.S. Military already recognizes the future wars will be over water and access to it

They buy salt water extractors like they did in Kuwait, A whole world of water is available. It may be the new "oil" in the middle east.

They can thank Allah for the thirst.

As long as west buy fuel from middle east to satisfy their thurst,people in middle east get more water.Did not they get water to live before the start of modernization,yes.We should not forget that The one who creates us will never forget to provide for our needs.It is we who create the imbalance.

When the water runs out, they build desalinization plants.

Maybe we can charge them $300 a barrel for water?!

I read somewhere yesterday- around here? CNN? Huffpo? ..that there may be a connection between aggressive oil drilling in the American Midwest and the loss of ground water, due to breaking through the bottom shale layers of the aquifers. The oil companies are basically punching holes like a sieve into the water table, and the water is just draining away underground, and wells are running dry. I wonder if that's also happening in the Middle East. I can't seem to relocate this story, does anybody recall hearing about this?

I know the answer to that!! they buy it from New Zealand it is like gold here!!

Perhaps the easiest way for Middle Eastern states (plus the drought-stricken states of Southern Europe) to combat increasing water shortages is desalinization. Most of the major population centers in the region are near a coastline afterall.

The 500 pound gorilla in the room .....

The point here is that water scarcity is an underlying cause of much of the unrest in this area of the world, only it is not getting the attention and press it needs in order to be dealt with. Governments would rather privitize it and much of it is polluted beyond the ability to be used. Even desalination in this area is proving costly. I am amazed that the word "conservation" never gets mentioned in addressing this crisis, and that is part of the problem. I would hope that the available sources would be shared equitably, but as we now see Turkey and Israel are the water bosses of the Middle East, and they control a large part of the water being used ( much of it now diverted for dams.) Also, we see many dams being built in Africa with hydropower becoming a source of energy that cannot be sustained in a land where drought and population growth are already straining agriculture along with the effects of biodistress (climate change.) We need to address population and water usage in line with polluton of this resource that is now unsustainable. We also need to bring energy sources to these areas that do not consume huge amounts of water that should be used for growing food and addressing the needs of people in these areas. I have always contended that there was a MAD scenario to the water crisis in that no country would ever do anything to harm the source of another as it would come back on them. However, from what I have seen recently regarding unwillingness of upstream countries to share equitably with downstream countries, this crisis is becoming more and more contentious not only in the Middle East but in Asia and Africa.

http://mideastnews.com/WaterWars.htm

The information here is a bit dated (1994) but the predictions to 2025 are coming true. Countries in this region have all stated that the one resource they will wage war over is water. And with this area already being arid now contending with longer replenishment rates due to climate change affecting the hydrologic cycle along with wasteful irrigation and drought where there is little potable water and higher populations, we will only see more protests along these lines as well as protesting higher food prices, unemployment and political corruption. Water is the 400 lb. gorilla in the room.

A water shortage can happen anywhere, as recent problems in Ireland would indicate. We'd be wise to actually help these nations figure out a solution because we will likely be needing a strategy of our own sooner than we think.

tHIS IS WHY i THINK pEOPLE Should TRADe uSiNg wATeR , CLEAN water

Water is perfect. It's completely transparent and it's good for you.

The middle east could trade sand for water. Sand is excellent, countries inundated with sea water could use all the plastic laying around to make huge plastic sheets to create large water purifying systems that are powered by the sun. The fresh water they get from these systems could be traded to countries in the middle east for sand. The sand could be used for sand bags or could have organic matter added to it to make it fertile. The sand could also be used to make glass, an excellent product when tempered to produce more fresh water from.

You could build some pretty simple tempered glass peculation systems that would use the suns heat to produce fresh water from seawater. Maybe they could try something like that in the middle east.