Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 International Rivers Chapter 3 The Nile Basin Chapter 4 Geopolitics of the Euphrates and Tigris Drainage Basin Chapter 5 The Jordan-Yarmuk Basin: Conflict over Little Water Chapter 6 The Orontes River as a Geopolitical Problem Chapter 7 "Internationalized" Water Sources: The Litani River Chapter 8 International Groundwater Conflicts in the Making Chapter 9 Nonconventional Solutions to the Problem of Water Shortages in the Middle East Chapter 10 Conclusion Chapter 11 Appendix: Metric Conversion Table Chapter 12 References Chapter 13 Index

About the Author

Arnon Soffer is professor of geography at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Reviews

Highlights the complexity of water issues in the region . . . provides a useful introduction to the elements of water scarcity that mark, and will continue to shape, the Middle East, whatever the political and environmental fortunes of the region may be.
*Middle East Journal*

A comprehensive study covering the geo-politics of water conflict in the Middle East. Rivers of Fire is an important and well-written book that should be read by anyone interested in water and environmental problems in the Middle East and by those interested in the international politics of the region.
*International Journal of Middle East Studies*

The book's greatest strength is that it provides five beautifully crafted regional hydro- and political geographies. . . . The book's greatest offering to the North American reader is its capacity for modeling. Conflicts among Middle Eastern nation-states sharing the Nile or the Tigris-Euphrates, for example, serve as fine counterparts to conflicts among the several federal states and provinces sharing the waters of the Colorado, the Columbia, or the Rio Grande.
*Professional Geographer*

Ground breaking work... Soffer's work still remains one of the most extensive examinations of the crisis of water in the Middle East.
*American Journal of Islamic Social Studies*

For questions concerning river sources, flow regimes, development projects, relations among riparian states, potential solutions, and future prospects . . . Soffer is the answer man.
*CHOICE, September 1999*