1. Essential Question: What environmental issues impact the way of life for the people of Southwest Asia?

2. Fill in the blanks…
Water ___________________is an important issue in the Middle East because the sources of fresh _______________are continuing to ____________while the ______________continues to increase. Water may be the underlying source of the next major regional ____________in the Middle East

3. New Vocabulary Desalination Define:
The removal of salt from water; especially, sea water.

5. Irrigation
Define:
Supplying water to farmland

6. Irrigation

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8. SG: Syria, Israel, and Jordan share the Jordan River.

9. Turkey has built several dams on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which flow south-east and it plans to build more.
SG: The main concern other countries have with the dams being built is the rivers’ water is needed in other countries.

10. SG: Desalinization and drip irrigation are not used more often in the Middle East because the technologies are very expensive.

11. SG: One problem chemical fertilizers cause for farmers build up of salt levels in the soil.

12. Pollutants

13. SG: The use of chemical fertilizers affected water supplies in many countries in Southwest Asia because water supplies have been contaminated by the chemicals through runoff from the fields.

14. Draw 4 pictures that represent the water crisis in the Middle East.
Draw 4 pictures that represent possible solutions to the water crisis in the Middle East. ?
Pollution ? ? ? ? ? ?