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Jordan’s Minister for Water and Irrigation Hazem Al-Nasir (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kammnicholas)
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A handout picture made available on 20 August 2013 and taken on 19 August 2013 shows highly radioactive water leaked from drain valve of contaminated water storage tanks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. (EPA/TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO)
Wrecked Fukushima storage tank leaking highly radioactive water
Tokyo, Reuters—Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The storage tank...Caption:
Population growth in the GCC region has put pressure on water resources. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Gulf moves closer to water linkage project
Riyadh, Asharq AL-Awsat—The Gulf states have started taking concrete steps to study the legal and regulatory aspects of a project to link the regional states’ water systems. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) intends to draw on experience from the electricity...Caption:
Protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Teargassed in Taksim
Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—It started as an evening walk down Istiklal, but an hour later I was trapped in a blind alley, crouched behind a bread cart with no opportunity to retreat as the police fired volley after volley of tear gas down Istanbul’s main shopping...Caption:
A waiter stands next to empty tables at a restaurant in the town of Aley, in the mountains southeast of Beirut, which was once crowded by tourists mainly from the Gulf states at this time of the year on June 26, 2013. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID