The conflict over the water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers: The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and his impact on the 1990 water crisis

Abstract

The levels of water scarcity on planet Earth are increasingly alarming. The high demographic growth in areas where the amount of available water is not proportional to the number of inhabitants, the contamination of aquifers and the lack of water spaces have already caused conflicts and disagreements over the control of this resource in some regions of our planet. liquid over time. Therefore, the need for cooperation between nations, government actors, mainly becomes increasingly inevitable. The Middle East is no exception as it is one of the places where the greatest water stress has been presented, specifically in the countries of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. In this article, this problem is exposed and analyzed with the attempts to control through the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) proposed since the 1970s by the Turkish government that has seriously affected the levels of water flow in Syria and Iraq and the example of such dominance and regu-lation with the crisis of 1990.