Too many fishermen and
boats chasing too few fish...
Each small explosion
symbol on this map
represents a recent conflict
or dispute, many involving
damage to property or
violence.
Source: Population Action International
"unless we learn to use these watersheds and manage them as a unit, which requires sharing and international cooperation, it is very difficult not to have conflict, and particularly as pressures for water rise. Many people think that in the Middle East its water and not oil that will be the source of the next wars."
- Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute
"There has been tremendous concern in the Tigris and Euphrates about Turkey's development of the waters of those rivers, they're trying to irrigate large areas of Turkey where rain fed agriculture is no longer sufficient to feed a growing population in Turkey...downstream is Saddam Hussein who is very dependent on those rivers for fresh water, and he is very concerned about what's happening in Turkey because he needs that water to keep flowing through his country, Syria is similarly concerned"
- Robert Engelman, Population Action International
