A three-year USAID-funded project on ‘Groundwater Governance in the Arab Region: Taking Stock and Addressing the Challenges’ implemented by IWMI and national partners across the Middle East-Northern Africa region investigated just that. Highlighted in a synthesis piece on the WLE Thrive Blog are five wicked problems that prevent the MENA region from properly addressing groundwater issues, in addition to some potential solutions.
Figure 1- A farmer walks along a groundwater well in Egypt’s Western Desert in Abu Minqar, a village built during a land reclamation project in the 1980s
