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Environment

Environment

A farmer drives a tractor through smoke from burning rice straw in preparation for the next harvest, at a paddy field in the beginning of the agricultural road leading to Cairo November 1, 2014. (Reuters)

Green initiatives in MENA make a change but long road ahead

Water

Cleaning water, saving lives. An engineer fills a flask with recycled water at an advanced water purification facility. (AP)

Water purification technology: a needed investment for MENA countries

Mauritania

A girl carries cans to fill them with water in Katawane, near Nema in south-eastern Mauritania. (AFP)

Mauritania’s nomadic herders seek safe passage through drought

Water

Low share. Palestinian children fill plastic gallons with drinking water from a vendor in Khan Younis. (AP)

Treating access to water and sanitation in the Arab world as a human right

Water

A Moroccan man inspects fog fences in a hamlet on the outskirts of the southern coastal city of Sidi Ifni, in 2015. (AFP)

Fog catchers conjuring water out of Moroccan mist

Iraq

Water-starved land. A view of the dried-up shore of an irrigation canal near the village of Sayyed Dakhil, south of Baghdad. (AFP)

In southern Iraq, drought tightens its grip

Algeria

A garbage collector leads donkeys in the old part of Algiers, known as the Kasbah, last May. (AFP)

Donkeys help keep Algiers Kasbah clean

Jordan

A young boy uses the water app, which is based on the popular “Snakes and Ladders” game in Amman. (Roufan Nahhas)

Water conservation is no game in Jordan, or maybe it is

Oman

Scientists test space suits and a geo-radar for use in a future Mars mission in Oman's Dhofar desert, on February 7. (AFP)

Sights set on Mars, with feet in Oman desert