In the Middle East, the periods of drought have become increasingly severe and rainfall has decreased by 30% on average in 15 years. Two-thirds of the water reserves could dry up by 2100.

 

In the world's most arid region, "Water is life", but it's also business.

 

This "blue gold" has been at the heart of the region's conflicts for 60 years now - without this really being acknowledged.

In Jordan, the vast majority of the Bedouin - who have been living a settled life for 40 years now - have abandoned the tradition of livestock breeding and farming. Discouraged by the effects of climate change and economic reforms that ignore them, and absorbed by an urban expansion fuelled by 5 million refugees from Palestinian, Kuwaiti, Iraqi and finally Syrian conflicts, the Bedouin have resigned themselves to selling their land, gaining short-term benefit from the property speculation.

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Caught up in an identity crisis, the younger generation have become "water carriers", travelling back and forth across the country with their water trucks - mainly to supply the capital, Amman - until stocks run out.