Water Wars: The Geopolitics Of Resource Conflict In The Middle East – OpEd

By Alp Sevimlisoy

Across the Euphrates lies one of the most precious commodities, not a dark viscous liquid that we formally refer to as Petroleum or a shimmering precious metal such as gold, but rather a translucent substance that is imperative to our lives, simply called, water.

The Euphrates Dam has been the site of...