In the Middle East, 5% of the worlds population shares 0.9% of the worlds water resources. Increasingly affected by development and population growth, per capita water availability has become the world’s worst. Conflict zones have arisen across the region and ground water supplies across the Arabian Peninsula are being depleted faster then they are being replenished. This crisis will affect millions of lives across the Middle East. These are the stories of some of those living on the forefront of this transition.

For years Suleman Bin Nasser Bin Abdullah Al Abri has been the caretaker of the falaj, an ancient and complex system of canals that provide his village with water for irrigation and daily life.
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Ahemed Saeed, a farmer in al Jiftlik near the Jordan River, struggles each dry season when his well can no longer support crops to provide for himself and his family. Elisa Zurgil, an adviser to the Israeli Fruit Growers’ Association, keeps his kibbutz in the Negev Desert thriving using high-tech distribution methods and water from Tel Aviv.
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Mehmet Nouri Aydn makes his living in Hasankeyf, Turkey, a village first inhabited over 10,000 years ago, selling his hand woven carpets to tourists. But his livelihood and home will soon be submerged under the Tigris River when construction on a damn downstream is complete.
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