During the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, British water policies combined with Zionist groups' settlement and `development' activities to drastically change the waterscape in the region. The changing water conditions had dire consequences for rural Arabs' ability to carry on farming, support livestock, and undertake water-dependent industries. The roots of British water policy lay in part in conceptions of the so-called Arab `race'. An instance of `environmental Orientalism', this case offers an opportunity to examine links between racial conceptions and environmental changes that had lasting influence on landscapes and peoples.
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