The Middle East and North Africa is the region most affected by water scarcity in the world, and for the moment, the situation seems set to worsen.
Water scarcity features among FAO’s five new strategic objectives. Credit: Bigstock
“In Yemen, we do not have many sources of fresh water and rain water is certainly not enough for our needs,” Gunid Ali Abdullah, planning director at Yemen’s Ministry of Agriculture, tells TerraViva in Rome. “We are all the time having to dig deeper and deeper to get water from aquifers.” Read more
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