Modern Issues in the Middle East

Which water issue does the Middle East struggle with the MOST?

• Water scarcity and unequal distribution

• Flooding and heavy rains

How has the building of dams created problems for countries sharing rivers in Southwest Asia?

• Dams are too expensive to build to be practical

• Dams limit the water available to countries further downstream.

• Few countries have the technology needed to be able to build dams.

• Countries in Southwest Asia are not allowed to build dams along shared rivers

What is an effect of raw sewage being dumped untreated into the rivers of Southwest Asia?

• Plants are growing larger.

• Water pollution is NOT a problem in Southwest Asia.

• Little rainfall.

• Water-borne diseases making people sick.

The water conflicts in both Southwest Asia and in the Southeast US deal with unequal distribution and which other issue?

• Pollution

• Flooding

• Monsoons

• Desertification

Iraqi Military leader that invaded Kuwait

• Yasser Arafat

• Anwar El-Sadat

• Gamal Nasser

• Saddam Hussein

The Camp David Accords was a peace agreement between which two countries?

• Israel and Egypt

• Canada and Mexico

• Britain and France

• Germany and China

Match the following leaders with their nation:

• Iraq

• George W. Bush

• United States

• Menachem Begin

• Egypt

• Ayatollah Khomeini

• Iran

• Anwar Sadat

• Israel

• Saddam Hussein

Egypt and Israel agree to peace in the Middle East with the help of Jimmy Carter

• Treaty of Paris

• Camp David Accords

• Tet Offensive

• Watergate Scandal

Which country did the United States force Iraq out of in 1990?

Vast areas of the Middle East are deserts. How has this impacted the use of water?

• In order to grow crops, people need to use irrigation.

• In the Middle East, many people use large quantities of water.

• There is lots of water in Southwest Asia.

• All the drinking water is piped in from the Arabian Sea.