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TABLE 22.1
Water Resources in Countries in the WANA Region

Renewable Water
Resources Precipitation b

Population a
2002

Area
Total

Total/
Cap. d

Water
Use e Average/Year Internal Total c

mm 10 9 m 3

Country 10 6 10 9 m 2 10 9 m 3 yr -1 m 3 yr -1 cap -1

West Asia

Bahrain 0.7 0.7 83 0.1 0.004 0.12 181 469

Iraq 24 438 216 95 35 75 3111 1861

Iran 72 1,648 228 376 129 138 1900 1036

Jordan 5.2 89 111 9.9 0.68 0.88 169 208

Kuwait 2.0 18 121 2.2 0.00 0.02 10 235

Lebanon 3.6 10 661 6.9 4.8 4.4 1220 392

Oman 2.7 310 125 39 1.0 1.00 365 532

Palestine 1.1 6 316 0.1 0.8 0.8 587 —

Qatar 0.6 11 74 0.8 0.05 0.05 86 513

Saudi Arabia 21.7 2,150 59 127 2.4 2.4 111 851

Syria 17 185 318 59 7 26 1541 1232

Turkey 69 775 593 460 227 229 3344 563

United Arab
Emirates

2.7 84 78 6.5 0.2 0.2 56 886

Yemen 20 528 167 88 4 4 206 361

Total/Average 242 6253 225 1271 412 482 1990 619

North Africa

Algeria 31 2,382 89 212 14 14 456 200

Egypt 70 1,001 51 51 1.8 58 830 1011

Libya 5.5 1,760 56 99 0.6 0.6 109 909

Mauritania 2.8 1,026 92 95 0.4 11.4 4028 638

Morocco 31 447 346 155 29 29 936 427

Tunisia 10 164 313 51 4.2 4.6 472 289

Total/Average 151 6780 158 662 50 118 785 579

a Total population in 2002 (WRI 2003); data for Palestine are from 2000 (FAO 2003a).
b Precipitation is the annual average for the years 1961-1990, as used by the IPCC. Adjustments were
made in case of large discrepancies with national data (FAO 2003a). Precipitation averages are aerial
averages.
c Total renewable resources (actual) are internal plus external resources, considering formal and infor-
mal agreements (FAO 2003a).
d Computed from total water resources (FAO 2003a) and 2002 population (WRI 2003).
e Total water use per capita data are from 2000 (FAO 2003a).