Middle East

Months after the ceasefire, families in Gaza still choose every day between drinking, washing and keeping disease away.

Fifteen of the world’s 20 most water-scarce countries are in the Middle East and North Africa. Wars are making a hard situation much worse.

Three weeks after it was hit, Iran said a desalination plant on Qeshm Island could not be repaired in the short term.

In the world’s driest region, millions of people drink water made from the sea. In March, the plants that make it came under fire.

For families already displaced by war, a winter storm brought cold, flooding and new danger.

After five years of drought, the reservoirs serving Iran’s capital are at their lowest in decades.

The guns fell quiet on 10 October. For Gaza’s families, the next fight is for clean water.