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Table 9: Water Balance in West Asia⁽¹⁾
Scenario III: Supply Augmentation and policy remedies

Assumptions:

• UN projection of population (1997) is applied.
• Conventional and non-conventional water resources will develop as in Scenario II.
• Rational use of water will result in a gradual saving in water demand, reaching 5 600 Mm³ in the Arabian Peninsula and 6 000 Mm³ in the East Mediterranean by 2015.

	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Arabian Peninsula sub-region
Available water resources	15.41	16.74	18.11	19.48	20.85
Total water demand	29.57	32.34	34.94	38.02	41.72
Water balance	-14.16	-15.60	-16.83	-18.54	-20.87
% W. balance/demand	-47.90	-48.20	-48.20	-48.80	-50.00
Mashriq sub-region
Available water resources	98.35	99.29	100.23	101.17	102.11
Total water demand	66.50	71.54	77.13	83.31	89.88
Water balance	31.85	27.75	23.10	17.86	12.23
% W. balance/demand	47.90	38.80	29.90	21.40	13.60
West Asia region
Available water resources	113.76	116.03	118.34	120.65	122.96
Total water demand	96.07	103.88	112.07	121.33	131.60
Water balance	17.69	12.15	6.27	-0.68	-8.64
% W. balance/demand	18.40	11.70	5.60	-0.60	-6.60

1. Volume in multiples of a thousand million cubic metres

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