Water scarcity in the Middle East brings Israel and Arab neighbors closer
Rising food prices combined with water scarcity problems have created a problem across the board. middle east region what the expert group hopes to fix.
A conference was held this week in the United Arab Emirates as part of the N-7 initiative of the Atlantic Council, aimed at developing cooperation between Israel and the Arab world with the aim of achieving results that serve the wider community of people.
The N-7 initiative aims to find solutions for food and water security in the Middle East. (Courtesy: N7 Initiative.) (Initiative N7)
“Our goal is to find innovative regional solutions to the common challenges of climate change, water scarcity and food insecurity,” Oren Eisner, president of the Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation, said in a statement.
The organizers of the event said that government experts, civil society representatives and representatives of the private sector have produced actionable materials aimed at positively impacting the lives of civilians throughout the region.
A gathering of representatives from 10 Muslim-majority countries, Israel and the United States follows Abraham’s agreements. This series of normalization agreements between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain has since opened the door to economic and security cooperation.
As tensions escalate in the Middle East over incidents between Israelis and Palestiniansas well as the development of Iran’s nuclear program, much of the government’s attention is still focused on security stability.
View of the plantation and the Jerash stream flowing into the King Talal Dam near Jerash.
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“Moments of tension sometimes force governments to act with caution,” former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel B. Shapiro, director of the N7 Initiative, told Fox News. “What is remarkable about the N7 conference is that, despite this tension, the participants from Israel and about ten Arab states were not just willing, but eager to come to Abu Dhabi for the meeting.”
Shapiro said that as a result of the negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, the participants showed interest in the large-scale use of Israeli water technologies in the Middle East, which can solve the problem of food insecurity through collective action.
“Most of all, they want to combine their knowledge and experience and jointly apply these solutions as N7 regional partners,” Shapiro said.
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