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2,126 Water Shortage Middle East Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Palestinian children wait next to water tank truck to collect water for their families as water crisis worsens in Gaza City, Gaza on May 03, 2018....

Water shortage in Gaza

Smoke billows as an Egyptian farmer burns hay stubbles in Qaliubia, some 40 kms north of Cairo, on October 23, 2006. The post-harvest burning...

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Woman washes pots and utensils in a stream of water in the village of Sayyed Dakhil, to the east of Nasariyah city some 300 kilometres south of...

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Palestinian children collect drinking water from a tap for their families as water crisis worsens in Gaza City, Gaza on May 03, 2018. The EU started...

Water shortage in Gaza

An Iraqi girl stands on dry, cracked earth in the marshes area near the al-Fuhood village, north of the southern city of Basra, on October 1, 2008....

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Deep sinkhole filled with water is seen in Ghor Haditha, Jordan, Saturday April 10, 2021. The sinkholes are a harbinger of that future in a Middle...

JORDAN WATER SECURITY ISSUES

Picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9, 2009. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a...

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Basra, Iraq. A shepherd has brought his sheep to graze in the fields near the oil wells of the Nahr Omar in the Shatt al-Arab river .

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Iraqi youths pour water from a jerrycan into a pipe in a field in Diwaniyah, around 160 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad, on April 2, 2018. -...

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Yemenis collect water from a well in an impoverished village on the outskirts of the port city of Hodeidah, on July 23 as the region has been facing...

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Relly and Eyal Golan inspect the damage at their house, which burned during a wildfire caused by dry conditions, on November 23, 2016 in the northern...

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Yemeni boy carries jerrycans to fill them with water from a public tap amid an acute shortage of water supply to houses in the country's...

Urmia, Iran. A view of Lake Urmia, one of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, which is located in the northwest of Iran, while the drought has...

Ahvaz, Iran. A view of Ahvaz, blanketed in a thick haze. Ahvaz has been consistently ranked as one of the world's worst cities for air pollution...

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Basra, Iraq. Irrigation pipes in the farm have been salted due to the salinity of the water in Basra, Iraq.Basra, Iraq.

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Basra, Iraq. Buffaloes in the suburbs of the city are cooling their bodies in the sewage water by the Shatt al-Arab river. Due to the salinity of the...

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Basra, Iraq. Buffaloes in the suburbs of the city are cooling their bodies in the sewage water by the Shatt al-Arab river. Due to the salinity of the...

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Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. Tuberculosis is a contagious but preventable and curable disease. Its microbe is found in the dust particles caused by...

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Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. A young Iranian Baluchi girl stands and poses for the camera.

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Sistan and Balouchestan, Iran. A fisherman collects the fish that died of salty water. Before this happened, he used to fish in this part of the lake...

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Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. An abandoned village near Hamun lake, deserted because of the persistent droughts over the last 20 years.

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Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. With increasing drought and lack of water, agricultural lands become saline. Kargaz tree is known as the most resistant...

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Palestinian man sits on dry land on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley on September 10, 2008. As Israeli...

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Palestinian boy carries a water-filled jerrycan in the West Bank village of Qarawat Bani Zeid on August 7, 2009 after international and Israeli human...

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Palestinian children collect drinking water from a tap for their families as water crisis worsens in Gaza City, Gaza on May 03, 2018. The EU started...

Water shortage in Gaza

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Wadi Rum Landscape, Jordan

Saudi man walking in the desert, Najran Province, Thar, Saudi Arabia on December 31, 2021 in Thar, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi man walking in the desert, Najran Province, Thar, Saudi Arabia...

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Sand dunes covering an abandoned highway in the desert, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Hassan Kanazri, a 63-year-old tomato farmer, walks through the former grounds for the Numeira Salt company and where sinkholes have appeared, ground...

JORDAN WATER SECURITY ISSUES

April 23 2023. People gather in the dried Hamun Lake basin to protest the government's policies for preserving the Lake. Hamun Lake is the third...

Hamun-Lake-Protest

Wooden dug out canoes belonging to Iraqi marsh Arabs lie sunken in the dry mud of the Hor or marshes, some 130 km southwest of the southern city of...

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Aerial image showing contrast between sand dunes in the desert at sunset, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. An Iranian man is seen protesting, holding a sign that reads "undrinkable water." The people of Sistan Baluchistan are...

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Abandoned roads in the desert at sunset seen from an aerial view, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Deep sinkhole is seen along the salt-encrusted shoreline of the Dead Sea, near Ghor Haditha, Jordan, Saturday April 10, 2021. The sinkholes are a...

JORDAN WATER SECURITY ISSUES

Hassan Kanazri, a 63-year-old tomato farmer, walks through the former grounds for the Numeira Salt company and where sinkholes have appeared, ground...

JORDAN WATER SECURITY ISSUES

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Yemeni women carry jerrycans to fill them with water from a public tap amid an acute shortage of water supply to houses in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa...

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Urmia, Iran. A view of Lake Urmia, one of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, which is located in the northwest of Iran, while the drought has...

Urmia, Iran. A group of Iranian women stage a performance on the dry bed of Urmia Lake to draw attention to climate change crises.

Urmia, Iran. A group of Iranian women stage a performance on the dry bed of Urmia Lake to draw attention to climate change crises.

Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. An Iranian man is seen protesting, holding a sign that reads "undrinkable water." The people of Sistan Baluchistan are...

Protests-for-water

Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. An Iranian man is seen protesting, holding a sign that reads "undrinkable water." The people of Sistan Baluchistan are...

Protests-for-water

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Detail of sand in Wahiba Sands desert.

Woman leaving footprints and going down desert sand dune. Dubai. United Arab Emirates.

Woman leaving footprints and going down desert sand dune. Dubai. United Arab Emirates

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Aerial perspective showing flowing dunes at sunset in the Arabian desert, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Desert dune shapes seen from a drone point of view, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Drone image looking down on the edge of a desert dune at sunset, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Aerial view showing an off-road vehicle driving on a desert track, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Urmia, Iran. A ship stranded in the growing salt flats of Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. Studies have revealed that the...

Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan residents, including children, queued for hours to fill water into wheelbarrows along the streets of Kabul on October 17,...

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Jordanians stand in a semi-deserted field near the Dead Sea south of Amman on November 9, 2009. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY AHMAD KHATIB Jor

Urmia, Iran. A ship stranded in the growing salt flats of Lake Urmia, a salt lake in the province of West Azerbaijan. Studies have revealed that the...

Hassan Kanazri, a 63-year-old tomato farmer, walks through the former grounds for the Numeira Salt company and where sinkholes have appeared, ground...

JORDAN WATER SECURITY ISSUES

Iraqi men remove pieces of cracked earth from the marshes crossing the southern Iraqi town of al-Azeir, 02 May 2007. The southern Iraqi marshes have...

IRAQ-ENVIRONMENT-MARSHES

An Iraqi man walks on dry, cracked earth in the Chibayish marshes near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on June 25, 2015. Marsh areas in southern...

TOPSHOT-IRAQ-CONFLICT-ENVIRONMENT-MARSH

An aerial view of dried up Meke Crater Lake in Karapinar district of Konya, Turkiye on April 27, 2024. Drought has impacted regions from Europe to...

Environmental consequences of drought in Turkiye's Konya

An aerial view of Kizoren Sinkhole after underground water level dropped due to lack of precipitation and drought and water level in the hole also...

Environmental consequences of drought in Turkiye's Konya

Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan residents, including children, queued for hours to fill water into wheelbarrows along the streets of Kabul on October 17,...

Transport-Containers-of-Water-in-Kabul

Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. Fisherman stands by his boat, Sistan and Balochistan.

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