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Water Security and Climate Change: Israel and the Middle East, with
Australian reflections
Dr Clive Lipchin, Arava Institute, Israel
The Hawke Centre logoMonday 6 July 2009
5.45pm for a 6.00pm start
Bradley Forum, UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building - level 5, 50-60
North Terrace, Adelaide
Jointly presented by the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and the
Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
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Throughout history, water has posed one of the greatest challenges to
humanity. Because it is a source of life, it is also a source of
conflict. More than one billion people do not have access to safe
water, and some 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation. However, the
lack of access to water is not only due to its scarcity. Rather, the
lack of access is due to unequal command of the resource, as well.
Climate change affects water security in many ways. As dry areas get
drier and wet areas get wetter, populations will become more
vulnerable to hunger, poverty and environmental degradation.
Changing patterns of irrigation and agricultural production will also
affect national economies and regional politics. Climate change, in
short, will do no less than exacerbate the strains that already exist
between access to water, inequality, and power.
In the face of these impacts, this talk will present how Israel and
the Middle East can address changing flows of trans-boundary waters,
irrigation and hydrological interdependence in terms of a changing
climate.
The talk will discuss the types of water management strategies that
will be necessary if Israel and the Middle East is to both meet the
needs of its population, while also setting water use levels within
the limits of ecological sustainability and political sensitivities.
Dr Lipchin will reflect on the water issues in Australia and how these
relate to the solutions being developed in the Middle East.
The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES) is a regional
centre for environmental leadership. By encouraging environmental
cooperation between peoples, the Arava Institute is working towards
peace and sustainable development on a regional and global scale.
Biography:
Dr clive LipchinAs a member of the Arava Institute faculty Clive
teaches courses in sustainable development, water management,
scientific research methodology and culture and environment
interactions. Clive also serves as the director of the Arava
Institute's Center for Environmental Policy and Research where he
oversees research projects, workshops and conferences that focus on
trans-boundary environmental problems facing Israel, Jordan and the
Palestinian Authority.
Most recently he has been involved in a regional project on
assessing impacts on the declining water level of the Dead Sea. This
project was conducted jointly with Palestinian and Jordanian partners
and funded by the European Union.
Currently, he is part of a research team working on the World Bank
sponsored feasibility study of the Red Sea-Dead Sea conduit. He is
conducting research on the environmental impact assessment of the
proposed project.
Clive also serves as senior consultant for Arava Environmental
Consulting & Technologies, the for-profit arm of the Arava Institute.
He specializes in corporate social environmental responsibility.
Clive recently served as senior editor on the book "Integrated Water
Resources Management in the Middle East", published by Springer
Scientific Publishers of the Netherlands. The book was an outcome of
an international conference on water management that brought together
over sixty water professionals from around the world. The conference
was organized and hosted by the Arava Institute with support from the
NATO Science for Peace and Security program.
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