Another risk is that many countries increasingly depend on the import of water-intensive
commodities from other countries. Already today, Jordan annually imports a virtual water
volume that is five times its own annually renewable water resources. Although saving
their own domestic water resources, it increases Jordan’s dependency on other nations.
Other countries in the same region, such as Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Israel, but
also European countries like the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland,
Denmark, Italy and Malta, have a similar high water import dependency.