Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the second of two volumes on the subject, the authors look beyond the political tensions of the region, to argue for the need for shared water security and co-operative resource management. Winning Water Security for Palestinians and Israelis, the authors assess water security in terms of security of access to water resources, security of access to water services and security against risks to and from water. The volume compares and contrasts Israelis remarkable water security with the corresponding water insecurity of the Palestinians. The authors also set out the practical, economic, legal and ethical rationale for a revised cooperation on water security between the two peoples, proposing a workable scheme for putting into practice a new form of cooperation that would hope to benefit both peoples and strengthen their water security.
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Christopher Ward is a scholar on water and the environment with a particular interest in the Middle East. He studied at St John's College and St Antony's College, Oxford. After 25 years working at the World Bank, he joined the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of The Water Crisis in Yemen (2015) and of Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East (2018). as well as of numerous studies and articles, most recently on water scarcity in Viet Nam and Indonesia, and of a monograph on desalination.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Divergence of Two Peoples and the Nature of Water Security
PART ONE: WATER SECURITY FOR ISRAELIS
Chapter One: The three components of Israeli water security
PART TWO: WATER SECURITY FOR PALESTINIANS
Chapter Two: Security of water resources for West Bank Palestinians
Chapter Three: Security of water services in the West Bank
Chapter Four: Sanitation and wastewater in the West Bank
Chapter Five: Security in water for agriculture and irrigation in the West Bank
Chapter Six: Water security in the Gaza Strip
PART THREE: TOWARDS A NEW COOPERATION ON WATER SECURITY
Chapter Seven: What scope for a new cooperation on water?
Chapter Eight: Incentives to change
Chapter Nine: How could cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians be reset and water security achieved for both peoples?
Coda: What do we learn about the concept of water security?
Index