Libya: Libyans’ Water Share at Critical Levels as Resource Depletion Threatens to Worsen Crisis

Bashir Nuweir, head of the National Water Security Strategy Team at the National Council for Economic and Social Development, has warned that the per capita share of renewable water in Libya is dangerously low. Official estimates put the share at just 120 cubic meters per year, far below the global water poverty threshold of 500 cubic meters.

Nuweir told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that most Libyans do not realize the seriousness of the crisis because more than 90 percent of the country’s…