TITLE: Water Scarcity: Cooperation or Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa?
SENTENCE 1: Water-sharing agreements governing shared resources such as the Nile are the way forward for the MENA region in order to avoid hydrological poverty and the harsh economic and human consequences this entails, especially as the gap between supply and demand widens in the future.
SENTENCE 2: This is the case for example for the Mountain Aquifer, the 1995 Oslo II interim agreement—which also defined the water-sharing arrangements between Palestine and Israel—came to consolidate the Israeli control that had been in place since 1967: Israel was granted access to over 71 percent of the aquifer water, while Palestinians were only granted 17 percent.
SENTENCE 3: Resources in the West Bank, for example, include the Jordan River, which runs all along the eastern border of the West Bank, and the Mountain Aquifer underlying the West Bank and Israel.

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