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Middle East: Intense water deficits to emerge in Saudi Arabia

Middle East: Intense water deficits to emerge in Saudi Arabia

The forecast through November indicates that widespread, intense water surpluses will persist in the region from southeastern Turkey and northern Syria through northern Iraq into northwestern Iran, and along the southeastern shore of the Caspian Sea and the Iran-Turkmen border. Exceptional deficits are forecast to emerge in a vast block of central Saudi Arabia.