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Environment

Oman

A desalination plant is seen in the Omani port city of Sur, November 27. (AFP)

Water-scarce Oman banks on desalination, at a cost

Iraqi

Undrinkable. Water pours in Al Bida water tanks project in Basra. (Reuters)

Year after poisoning disaster, Iraq seeks end to its water crisis

Iraqi

An Iraqi youth jumps in the Euphrates river near the water-wheels in Hit, Iraq, July 23. (Reuters)

New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance

Climate change

Demonstrators roll a giant globe through a street as they take part in a so-called Climate March in Bonn, Germany. (AFP)

Europeans fear climate change more than terrorism or migration

environment

Visitors look at screens displaying images of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park at the solar plant in Dubai. (AFP)

Hot Sahara sun could ensure cleaner future

plastic

Environmental dilemma. Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles on the seaside of Ouzai in Lebanon. (AFP)

Technological remedies to plastic waste in the Mediterranean are themselves risky

Egypt

Choking the river. Egyptian volunteers collect waste and plastic as part of a campaign to clean up the Nile River.(Reuters)

Egypt steps up campaign against sea plastic waste

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Egypt

Palm wood products displayed at the Egyptian Bureau for Cultural and Educational Affairs during London craft week foto supplied

The win-win revolution of turning discarded palm ribs into modern furniture

Karen Dabrowska

Iraq

A canal with low water level at the Al-Mashahada pumping station north of Baghdad, April 16. (AFP)

Despite full reservoirs, Iraq water woes far from over