Preface by HRH Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud ; foreword by Walter R. Erdelen and Ralph J. Daleh.

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical and environmental setting of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding seas / Michael C. Brook [et al.] -- The current status and future requirements of water resources management in the Arabian Peninsula / Michael C. Brook [et al.] -- Factors and impacts of the contamination of hydrological resources in the Arabian Peninsula / Mohamed N. Allam and Alaa M. El-Zawahry -- The role of water legislation in the management of water resources in the Arab countries of the Western Asia Region / Mohamed Abdulrazzak and Radwan Al-Weshah -- The current water situation in Yemen, an introduction / Kamel Mostafa Amer, Michael C. Brook and Hussein Ali Al-Zabidy -- Marine and coastal ecosystem management requirements in the Arabian Peninsula with special regard to water resources / Friedhelm Krupp, Abdulrahman Al-Muftah, David A. Jones and John Hoolihan -- Coastal and terrestrial ecosystem management requirements in the Arabian Peninsula / Gary Brown, John Peacock, Ronald Loughland and Ghaleb A. Alhadrami -- The need for desalination and water reuse as non-conventional water resources in the Arabian Peninsula / Kamel Mostafa Amer and Waleed K. Al-Zubari -- Pollution impacts of desalination on ecosystems in the Arabian Peninsula / Walid A. Abdulrahman and Tahir Husain -- The relationship between economic and ecological policies towards energy consumption in desalination plants / Muhammad Al-Rashed and Mutaz Jafar -- Biosalinity research and development in the Arabian Peninsula / Sandra E. Child.