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The former Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and former UN Secretary General, Burros Burros Ghali stated after the second Gulf War „The next war in the Middle East will not be fought for oil, but for water.“

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Scheumann, W., Schiffler, M. (1998). Introduction. In: Scheumann, W., Schiffler, M. (eds) Water in the Middle East. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03731-7_1

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