Are we Running Dry!

Thirstier Than We Admit: What the Middle East’s Water Numbers Are Trying to Tell Us

Fill a glass of water in Amsterdam and you are drawing from a system engineered for abundance. Fill one in a herding community in the Jordan Valley and, on many days, you are measuring your ration in the twenties — twenty litres, for everything: drinking, cooking, washing, staying alive through a desert summer. That gap between two glasses is, in miniature, the story this article is trying to tell.

Start with the global picture. One in four people on Earth — 2.1 billion — still lack access to safely managed drinking water, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme, in a report released during World Water Week in August 2025....

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