القانون الدولي و الأمن المائي : دومينو الشرق الأوسط : العرب و حروب المياه

الملخص EN

This paper introduces international law and water security and sheds light on World Water Day, March 22, based on the United Nations General Assembly resolution of December 22, 1992 on the recommendation of the Rio de Janeiro conference in 1992.

This research is divided into two parts.

The first deals with water security and is divided into two topics: 1- The Right to Water 2- Water and Life.

The second part deals with: Arand water wars, and has four sub sections, divided as follows: 1- Water and "Israel"2- Ethiopia: jumping over barriers, and this topic branches as follows: A- Ethiopian - "Israeli" cooperation B - Nile and water security C- The Renaissance Dam and Ethiopian obstinacy.3- Turkey: the jungle project and the water problem4- Iran and Shatt Al-Arab: the detonator.

This research concludes that water, due to its scarcity and the impossibility of living without it has become a source of conflict and wars.

It has been used as a tool of influence and dictation of will, that has evolved with the development of science and technology, and the growing need to use water.

It has become a focus of social and political conflict on a global scale and in the region, especially due to pollution, salinity, water deficit, population growth, scarcity of resources, and increased use.

In conclusion, external challenges are not the only reason for the exacerbation of the water problem in the Arab world, but there are internal challenges related to: policies, trends, procedures, economic, social, legal, measures related to the lack of rational use of water, and the lack of purification of modern irrigation projects, such as reservoirs and dams.

Moreover, not to mention the steady increase in the human population as well as the increase in the percentage desertification, drought, climate change, etc.

Water battles will inevitably wage if the situation continues as it is.

There are already ongoing battles which are silent without military communications, but voices will arise and their preparations will be declared by wars; by military, or non-military; by violence or non-violence (rough or soft).

Their battles will be complex in nature.

Just like the historic oil wars, water wars will tig