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“Jordan Is Thirsty And Cannot Wait Any Longer…”
September 28th, 2009
Via Terra Daily, a report that Jordan has decided to go it alone and build a two-billion-dollar pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea without help from proposed partners Israel and the Palestinian Authority. As the article notes: “…Jordan is thirsty and cannot wait any longer,” said Fayez Batayneh, the country’s chief representative […]
Read more »The Drought Crescent: Water Politics In The Middle East
September 5th, 2009
Via Conde Nest’s Traveler, an interesting report on Jordan which sits at the center of nations competing for scarce water resources amid a controversial plan to tap the Red Sea. As the article notes, these lands were part of what was once called the Fertile Crescent, where three great rivers—the Nile, the Tigris, and the […]
Read more »Water: A Key Element Of Mideast Peace
June 26th, 2009
Via Terra Daily, a reminder that water is a key element of Mideast peace. As the article notes: “…Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel must address the vital issue of water in the West Bank if meaningful peace talks are to take place.Israel’s leaders said nothing, but Abbas had touched on one of the most […]
Read more »Hands on The Tap: China, Israel, and U.S.
March 31st, 2009
Via The Nation, an interesting article positing further that the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. As the article notes: “…Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water “will in large part determine whether our future is […]
Read more »A Mideast Peace Canal?
December 24th, 2008
Via Terra Daily, an article on a planned 4.5 billion dollar “Peace Canal” to bring water from the Red Sea to the fast evaporating Dead Sea which could benefit the entire Middle East. As the report notes: “…I think that all the region will benefit from the project,” Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told […]
Read more »Better Red than Dead? Jordan’s Proposed Peace Canal
December 2nd, 2008
Via Terra Daily, details on a proposed Jordanian plan to haul water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea. As the article notes: “…The 3.5-billion-euro (4.5-billion-dollar) “Peace Canal” is the heart of the government’s vision of slaking thirst in a country that is mostly bone-dry desert and one of the 10 driest places […]
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