Lessons and Inspirations from the International Disputes Caused by Water Resources Development in the Two-River Basin of West Asia
西亚两河流域水资源开发引起国际纠纷的经验教训及启示

The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers constitute the well known Two-River Basin,covering three major riparian countries of Turkey,Syria and Iraq,the downstream areas of which have thousands years of irrigation history and are the origin of the ancient western Asian civilization.However,a large scale of water resources development projects have been implemented in the upstream areas over the past decades(especially the giant Southeastern Anatolian Project,called GAP in Turkey,is one of the most ambitious developme...