‘Virtual water’: a long term solution for water short Middle Eastern economies?

The paper addressees the issue - why has there been no war over water when many economies in arid regions have only half the water they need and many leading figures, King Hussein, Boutros Boutros Gali, have warned that there would be a water war? It will show that the Middle East region has been able to access water in the global system via trade.

Economic systems, not the evidently inadequate hydrological systems, have solved the water supply problem for the region. Water in the global trading system is know a ‘virtual water’.