Water-for-electricity: the Lebanese-Jordanian solution
What an idea! Water for electricity, as it sounds into the oil-for-food program for Saddam's Iraq. Actually, the water-for-electricity deal between Lebanon and the...
Kenya needs to improve its rainwater harvesting systems
This year Kenya has witnessed “torrential
rainfall”, writes the Theme Leader of Water Management at World Agroforestry
Centre, Maibo Malesu. However, at the wake of pouring...
Dumping untreated sewage into the sea, a serious health hazard
Although the beaches of the Lebanese coastal city of Jounieh are a popular destination for relaxation and water sports in the bay, the bacteria...
Plastic pollution chocking water bodies in Lebanon
Plastic pollution as well as garbage pollution has become an enormous source of problem not only in Lebanon but worldwide. The crisis has gained...
Roland Riachi on water resources: “2018 is definitely a year of crisis”
ByTheEast: What’s so specific about water in Lebanon?
Riachi: What’s really fascinating about water is that water is everywhere. In every fields in our societies:...
A small step towards a greener energy security in Lebanon
In a development aimed at safeguarding Lebanon’s energy security, the country’s Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and Ministry of Environment (MoE) are set...
Restoring Nile’s breath, the impossible task?
Have you ever been to Asyut, Beni Suef, Cairo at at the end of the Nile delta? Garbages, plastic wastes, bad smell, everywhere. The...
Research program for enhancing rain in the Middle East
In efforts aimed at rain enhancement, the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science, UAEREP, has selected Dr. Paul Lawson, its second cycle awardee,...