Woda a geopolityka i bezpieczeństwo Bliskiego Wschodu

The Middle East is the world’s most unstable region, which impacts on Western interests and security. Though overshadowed by the global “war on terror” and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a common problem that continues to affect the area “from Marrakech to Bangladesh” is access to sources of drinking water. For as early as 1985 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then foreign minister of Egypt and later UN Secretary-General, recognized that forthcoming armed conflicts in the Middle East would be linked to disputes over access to water.