page_title: Environmental issues in Yemen
hierarchical_section_title: Environmental issues in Yemen
caption_attribution_description: العربية: المباني المُرتفعة المُكوَّنة من عدَّة طوابق في مدينة شبام، بِوادي حضرموت في اليمن. English: The high-rise architectures at Shibam, Wadi Hadhramaut (or Hadhramout, Hadramawt) Yemen. Français&#160;: L'architecture tout en hauteur du village de Shibam, dans l'Hadramaout, au Yemen. Italiano: Lew alte costruzioni a Shibam, Wadi Hadhramaut (o Hadhramout, Hadramawt) in Yemen.
context_page_description: Yemen, one of the poorest developing countries in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea.
  Yemen is encountering severe environmental issues in two aspects, water and land. In the aspect of water, Yemen has limited natural fresh water resources and inadequate supplies of potable water. As for the land, two main issues of Yemen are overgrazing and desertification. Yemen has signed several international agreements: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection.
context_section_description: Yemen (the republic of Yemen), one of the poorest developing countries in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea. 
  
  Yemen is encountering severe environmental issues in two aspects, water and land. In the aspect of water, Yemen has limited natural fresh water resources and inadequate supplies of potable water. As for the land, two main issues of Yemen are overgrazing and desertification. Yemen has signed several international agreements: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection.
caption: Shibam Wadi Hadhramaut Yemen
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