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Israel’s Water Challenge
January 4th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Israel’s water related issues: Filters at the Ashkelon seawater reverse osmosis plant south of Tel Aviv in 2008. Summary Israel’s successful efforts to increase water security will lessen one of the country’s geographical constraints. But new sources of water are more energy intensive, and this could […]
Read more »Gaza’s Other War Is Over Water
November 21st, 2012
Via Pacific Standard, a look at the water challenges facing Israel & Gaza: Of all the things the governments of Israel and Gaza have against each other, the fate of a water treatment plant would seem like the least of the problem. A little-noted UN report released in August argued the opposite: that the rockets […]
Read more »Water: Connecting Israel to Africa
August 15th, 2012
Via Green Prophet, an article on increasing cooperation between Israel and Africa over water: Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, landed on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He continued on to Uganda and Kenya, where he will inaugurate two Israeli-cooperation projects in agriculture and health. According to Israel’s ambassador to Uganda, Gil Haskel, Israel is […]
Read more »Israel Siphoning Off Africa’s Nile?
August 3rd, 2012
Via Al Akhbar News, an article on the recent Israeli agreement with South Sudan over water: Egyptian and Sudanese policy failures have lead to a looming strategic threat to both countries’ most important resources – the Nile. Israel has now signed an agreement with the South Sudanese authorities over rights to the country’s precious water […]
Read more »Israel Concerned Lebanon May Divert Water
July 13th, 2012
Via The Jerusalem Post, an article on Israel’s deliberation of potential responses to the possibility that Lebanon will divert water from the Hatzbani River: The IDF is deliberating responses ahead of the possibility that Lebanon will divert water from the Hatzbani River, a move that Israel has in the past viewed as a casus belli […]
Read more »Water “Apartheid” In The West Bank?
March 19th, 2012
From Australia’s World News, a look at whether water is being used as a weapon in the West Bank: In the Middle East, water is more than just a precious commodity — it’s a serious sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After a French politician denounced Israel’s policy as “water apartheid,” a deeper look into […]
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