Academic journal article
Author unknown (1998). Middle East Water. The Monograph, Volume 49, Issue No. 2, 7-22.
This article offers a deep insight to the water problems in the Middle East. It first presents an overview of the issue through reference notes and relevant data about each of water resources and their importance to the countries around them. Then, it depicts detail the four main conflicts and how they affect the economical stability of the region. Rather than only listing the issues and not analyzing them beyond the surface, this article contains an entire section on possible solutions and alternatives to the issue. Moreover, it includes four different maps and statistic tables with pertinent information about the conflicts. However, some of the approaches to the issue seem to be in favor of the Arab nations and against Israel, which could affect the accuracy of the text.
Internet source
Hardy, R. (03/16/1999). World: Middle East Analysis: The politics of water. BBC News. (11/25/2008)
This article offers a shallow overview of the water problems in the Middle East. It briefly describes the cases of Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Turkey, without any further analysis of the issues. It shortly calls for the intervention of international organizations but does not suggest any possible solutions to the conflicts. Furthermore, it even implies that, in the short term, there are no potential alternatives to resolve them. However, an important resource that this article includes is a map of the region, representing the countries and the rivers in question. Although the article depicts the information about the conflicts in a superficial way, there is still the possibility of bias overviews of the issue. This is mainly because the author could be offering his Western, pro-Israel perspective.
Published book
This chapter of the book offers an exhaustive historical review of the water issues in the Middle East, focusing on the confrontation of the Arab nations and Israel. It thoroughly depicts both parties of the conflict, concentrating mainly the Jordan and the Yarmouk rivers. Moreover, it explores the environmental issues caused by the increasing demand of water from those rivers, as well as its economic and political effects on the region. In addition, it establishes a connection between the politics of water and the immigration phenomenon. The book generally contains impartial approaches to the issue, always portraying the Arab and the Israeli perspective. However, in the first part of the chapter, the author describes several events that he has witnessed himself which could lead to a bias point of view in the chapter.
