Turkey
Pollution also comes form ______ ____________ in the Black Sea.
What are oil spills?
Syria suffers from ________ __________________.
What are food shortages?
Three ______________ ____ ______________ have caused damage to Iraq's water treatment plants.
What is decades of warfare?
Israel has been involved in many conflicts over water rights to the ____________ __________ with Syria, Jordan, and Palestine.
What is the Jordan River?
How many days a week can the citizens of Jordan get water?
What are 2 days?
Saudia Arabia has a ____________ ______________.
What is a desert climate?
What is the name for the desert nomad who have called the desert home for thousands of years?
What are Bedouins?
What river runs through turkey and Iraq?
What is the Tigers River?
People use ____________ and __________ along rivers.
What are travel and trade?
Turkey has developed the Southeastern Anatolia Project, which consists of _______________ and 19 hydroelectric plants along the Euphrates River.
What is 22 dams?
What did Syria build along the Euphrates river?
What are dams?
Iraq faces water pollution problems as a result of industry and __________________ ________________ equipment.
What is petroleum drilling?
What is the underground layer of rock and want that contains water in Israel?
What is aquifers?
Jordan is one of the ten most __________ ____________ countries in the world.
What is water scarcity?
In Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia there is the World's Largest _______________________ __________.
What is a Desalination Plant?
What do Bedouins herd?
What are sheep, camel, and goats?
What river runs through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq?
What is the Euphrates River?
In countries that have a ________________ ____________, the population increases around port cities.
Chemical fertilizers from agriculture and ____________________ ____________ from industries pollute the rivers.
What is industrial waste?
The dams of built along the Euphrates river reduced the river's flow into Iraq, thus causing ________ ________________.
What is more conflict?
The dams that Turkey and Syria Built along the Euphrates have negatively impacted the country's ________ ____________.
What is the food supply?
Because the rainfall is down, Israel has to rely on drawing water from its
________________.
What is aquifers?
Jordan cannot meet the basic needs of its people and has to ____________ ______ __________ supply.
What is rationing the water?
Water is scarce in Saudia Arabia, and what little water that is available is of poor quality because of ________ __________.
What do people travel across the desert in?
What are camel caravans?
What river joins the Euphrates to become the Shatt al-Arab?
What is the Tigris River?
Rivers are important __________ ____________ for people in cities to use the ship goods to other merchants.
What are trade routes?
Turkey has a "water advantage" over other Middle Eastern countries because the ____________ and __________________ ___________ form here.
What is Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Irrigating new land is extremely difficult with the diminished __________ ____________ from the Euphrates.
What is the water supply?
Wheat and rice production has decreased dramatically, and many farmers are now ______________ ________.
What is without jobs?
The aquifers in Isreal are in jeopardy because more water is __________ ______ than is replenished by rain.
What is taken out?
Israel has __________ __________________ that redirect the river's water away from Jordan and into its own lands.
What are built pipelines?
Desalination is the process of taking ________ ______ ____ ________________ and using it for drinking water.
Over the last 50 years, residents have been exchanging the harsh nomadic life for work in the _____________?
What are cities?
What river forms part of the boarder for Syria, Jordan, and Israel?
What is the Jordan River?
Southwest Asia's waterways are important to ________________ __________________ because they have helped make the region a center for shipping and trade for hundreds of years.
What are national economies?
The Southeastern Anatolia project has greatly improved the ________________ ____ ____________ for Turkey's Citizens. Unfortunately, the country has had to deal with the increasing problem of __________ __________________.
What is standard of living?
What is water pollution?
The dams that Turkey built along the Euphrates have greatly ______________ ______ ____________ of water reaching Syria.
What is the reduced amount?
The dams that Turkey and Syria built along the Euphrates have greatly reduced the amount of water reaching Iraq by how much?
What is 80% less?
Since its creation in 1948, Israel has developed ______ ____________________ and advanced farming techniques that have turned the once-barren desert land into farmland.
What are new technologies?
Jodan's major surface water sources are shared with Israel and Syria, who leave only a __________ ____________ for Jordan.
What is a small amount?
Saudia Arabia has built several _______________________ ____________ that provide most of the country's drinking water.
What are desalination plants?
Bedouins live in what?
What are tent camps and huts?
What river empties into the Persian Gulf?
Access to water make the area much easier to live in for ______________ & ______________, source of irrigation for farmers to grow crops, and provide a source of _________.
What is bathing and drinking?
What is food?