Where is this country?
Tigris and Euphrates start here, north of Iraq and Syria
What is Turkey?
This river makes the border between Jordan and Israel, and is significant in the Bible and other holy texts.
What is the Jordan River?
The term used to describe things living in the water which can make you sick
What are microorganisms (or something similar, like bacteria.)
What can happen to you if you drink unpurified water from a river, or a puddle in the ground?
What is you can get sick?
Most people in the Middle East live near.
What is water (rivers, coast, etc. fine)
This territory is on the Mediterranean, sandwiched between Israel and Egypt
What is Gaza Strip?
This river passes from Turkey, down through Iraq, and does not go through Syria.
What is the Tigris?
This type of water pollution comes from humans.
What is sewage?
Saline ground water means this.
What is salty?
This is something that farmers would do to get water to their fields further away from the river?
What is irrigate? (irrigation)
This country is north of Israel, south of Turkey along the border, north and east of Iraq along the border, and has Lebanon on their southwest border.
What is Syria?
This river starts in Turkey, up in the mountains, and ends in the Persian Gulf. Along the way, it passes through Syria.
What is the Euphrates?
This term from water pollution describes factories dumping or leaking chemicals into the water.
What is Industrial Waste?
Wealthy Arab countries are able to do this to get drinking water from the ocean/sea?
What is Desalinate?
In the desert, this potentially hazardous event can occur if there is high wind?
What is a sandstorm?
This landlocked country is east of Iran, north of Pakistan, and south of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
What is Afghanistan?
This waterway is the shortcut between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
What is the Suez Canal?
This is how wealthy countries in the west typically control water pollution.
What is regulation?
This is an underground water container made of porous rock, sand, or silt.
What is an aquifer?
Desalination is difficult because (two reasons)
What is Desalination is expensive and requires advanced technology?
This location is sandwiched between Israel and Jordan, and along the Jordan river.
What is the West Bank?
This waterway is a narrow point between Iran and Oman (the Arabian Peninsula) where a significant amount of the worlds oil travels daily.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This type of water pollution is the most common in the Middle East, and comes from farms?
What is Agricultural Runoff?
These things built in another country are the reasons why Syria and Iraq don't have as much drinking water. Country and the thing.
What is Turkey and Dams?
The Middle East doesn't rain often; what is a dangerous event in the desert that can happen if it suddenly starts to rain heavily?