Jordan: Water Scarcity Discourse at Heart of Internal and Regional Politics — Scholar

Oct 1, 2018 | Saeb Rawashdeh, Jordan Times
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While water scarcity in Jordan has been widely researched, mainly from an engineering perspective, less is known from the water politics angle, a Jordanian scholar said. During a lecture titled “Water scarcity discourses and hydro-politics in the case of Jordan”, held at the CBRL British Institute in Amman on Saturday, Hussam Hussein, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel, Germany, explained that Jordan is among the most water scarce countries in the world. It is important to understand how a problem is framed, in order to being able to provide the best appropriate solutions, therefore his research was focused on "Who constructs this narrative in the region? How is this done? And what are the hidden interests behind this discourse?”