Abstract:
This paper presents analysis of water security using risk
analysis. It contributes to an enhanced understanding of the water security
issue through creating indicators and their use in the determination of the
water security level. The paper presents first the methodology followed in
this research, which includes three steps: identification of water risk
drivers, the determination of their severity and likelihood and finally the
calculation of the water security score. The paper presents the first step of
the application of this methodology to Palestinian territory through the
identification of the drivers of the water risk and the levels of both the
severity and likelihood to be used in future water security assessment.
