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ARNON SOFFER, Rivers of Fire: The Conflict over Water in the Middle East (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). Pp. 311. $69.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Alwyn R. Rouyer
Alwyn R. Rouyer
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Idaho, Moscow
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Abstract

Arnon Soffer has written a comprehensive study covering the geo-politics of water conflict in the Middle East. Soffer's major contention is that the region is rapidly heading in the direction of environmental disaster because it is running out of water. Although he believes that regional cooperation, combined with the development of new water resources through nonconventional means—particularly desalination—is a possible solution to the problem, he is pessimistic about the likelihood of cooperation because of historical distrust among the nations involved in each basin conflict.

Type
BOOK REVIEW
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , August 2000 , pp. 438 - 440
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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