"I would always ask any friend coming from Damascus to Beirut to bring me a bottle of Fijeh Spring water. I would drink the water in Beirut and feel the...

SyriaUntold brings you the latest edition of our digest. We want to share with you the news, features, investigative pieces and long-form essays that we're reading this week.

An unsustainable management of water and land resources, socio-economic inequality, and badly timed government policies created a volatile situation with widespread socio-economic vulnerability to drought. These are factors that can...