Land use and lack of water in the midde east

As we continued out trip through the middle east we decided to end our trip by talking about the land use and lack of water in the middle east.
During certain seasons different places use certain rivers such as Syria using the Yamurk river. They use this river to plant crops and mainly to drink from during the warm seasons. Another example is Lake Galilee that is a huge source of fresh water for the Israelis' but is drying up so fast that the Israelis' are thinking about cutting down all of their surrounding fruit trees so that the water is not feeding the trees.
The middle eastern people use the land for fishing but the water is growing so scarce that the water is now considered very holy such as the Galilee which is considered the most holy river in the middle eastern Odyssey.