Southwest Asia is mostly desert, resulting in the lack of water, but an even greater need for it. Southwest Asians need the water to drink, trade, and to grow the crops needed to survive.

    One problem in Southwest Asia is water pollution. With the growing population, citizens are using more and more water, thus releasing more and more pollutants into the environment around them. This destroys what little water is even left there! But, countries are too busy having political disputes, which has drawn their attention away from building the sewage treatment plants. To complicate matters further, the untreated pollutants then seep into the ground water or into their valuable freshwater sources.

     Another significant problem is the uneven distribution of the water sources. Some countries have huge rivers

like Iraq or gigantic aquifers like the West Bank. Since this water is usually not available to surrounding countries, sometimes wars are fought; for water!