Ministry of Environment:Lebanon State of the Environment Report 2001, p. 109f.. According to the FAO, the country's economically available water resources are even lower at 2.1 billion cubic meters per year, consisting of 1.6 billion cubic meters of surface water and 0.5 billion cubic meters of groundwater.
Institut de Prospective Economique du Monde Méditerranéen:Water and Sanitation Services in Cities and Countries Bordering the Mediterranean Sea, Working Group Report under the chairmanship of Claude Martinand, President, Institut de la Gestion Déléguée (the French PPP Institute), Vice-President, the Conseil Général des Ponts et Chaussées, 30 January 2007, p. 47–48