Chapter 5

Tensions in Narratives and Lived Realities of Water Crisis in Damascus, Basil Mahayni

This chapter analyzes narratives of water crisis in Damascus, and considers these against Syria’s modernization projects of the last forty years.  Rather than isolating water crises as specific to Damascus, the chapter argues that a broader set of conditions unfolding across time throughout Syria make the articulation of a perceived and real water crisis in Damascus possible. Specifically, there is a need to consider long-term and multi-scalar effects of Ba’athist agricultural policies and state subsidization schema on water governance practices across Syria and the ways these link to the emergence of ‘water crisis’ in urban Damascus.

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