CER podcast: Water scarcity: Libya's forgotten issue

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this week's CER podcast, our 2021-22 Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow Megan Ferrando spoke to Malak Altaeb, an environmental consultant and writer based in Paris. Megan recently published a CER paper about water insecurity in the Maghreb, and in this episode with Malak, takes a close look at the situation in Libya in particular. They discuss how the water landscape changed after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the extent of the problem today, and what international actors like the EU can do to help. 02:02 - Why water security should be higher up the political agenda 05:32 - The link between water and politics in Libya 08:00 - Libya's great man made river project 14:21 - Water scarcity in Libyans' daily life 18:01 - The challenge of long-term solutions in an unstable context 22:06 - What the EU and the international community can do Produced by Rosie Giorgi Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.
0:04.2	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:06.0	future that we want, and we all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.6	For us in Germany, is the beckrentness to the European Europe,
0:14.1	a part of our state's resource.
0:15.7	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.4	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to this new episode of the CER podcast. My name is Megan Ferando. I'm this year's
0:34.1	Clara Marina O'Donnell Fellow. This episode is recorded in the context of a new CER policy brief which I've written.
0:41.5	It addresses the growing challenge of water scarcity in the Maghrab, how water scarcity is linked
0:46.2	to instability in the region, and how the EU should respond to this.
0:50.5	The policy brief will come out this week.
0:53.8	Today we're zooming in on one Maghreb country in particular, Libya, to discuss how water scarcity plays out there and how it's linked to the political and security situation.
1:03.0	We meet today is Malak Al-Taybe, an independent consultant, blogger and researcher from Libya based in Paris.
1:10.0	Hi Malik. Hello, Megan. Malik, your work focuses
1:13.5	on water politics and food security in Libya. So tell me, as an outsider to Libya, I've mostly
1:20.3	been following the international headlines. So I look at Libya and I see the conflict that started
1:25.7	in 2011 with the toppling of long-term ruler Muammar Gaddafi. I see the conflict that started in 2011 with the toppling of long-term ruler
1:29.3	Muammar Gaddafi. I see the dissented to civil war, the fragmentation of the country,
1:34.3	which we still see today. Last December there was a failed attempt to hold elections
1:39.3	and now we have two rivaling governments, each backed by local and international forces.
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