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The Red-Dead Sea Canal: A Fading Pipe Dream To Fix The Middle East’s Water Woes
February 14th, 2024
Via IFL Science, a look at the proposed Red-Dead Sea Canal which, with relationships in the Middle East at an all-time low, the Red Sea–Dead Sea may never come to fruition: Two fingers of the Red Sea – the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba – rise through the Middle East between Egypt, […]
Read more »Jordan Will Not Sign Water-for-Energy Deal With Israel
November 22nd, 2023
Via the Jordan Times, a report that Jordan will will not sign water-for-energy deal with Israel in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Thursday that Jordan will not sign a water-for-energy deal with Israel in light of the ongoing war on the […]
Read more »Jordan Plans Multi-Billion Dollar Aqaba to Amman Desalination Project Amid Water Crisis
September 29th, 2023
Via The National News, an article on Jordan’s plans to build a multi-billion dollar Aqaba to Amman desalination project amid its water crisis: Along a long and dusty motorway, connecting Jordan‘s capital Amman with the south of the country, is a pipeline that provides much needed water to hundreds of thousands of people. The controversial $1.1 billion […]
Read more »Amman’s Lost Water
August 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Places Journal, a detailed look at Jordan’s desert city of Amman which is running out of water while officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dysfunctions can be escaped rather than addressed: Water arrives to my house in Amman on Tuesday evenings. I breathe a sigh of relief when […]
Read more »Jordan’s Black Market for Drinking Water
August 17th, 2023
Via EurekaAlert, a new article quantifying the black market for drinking water in Jordan: IMAGE: THE PAIRS OF BARS SHOW THAT THE FULL GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTIONS FOR TANKER DELIVERIES ESTIMATED WITH THE UFZ MODEL FOR 2015 (PINK) SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDED THE LICENSED GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTIONS (GREEN) IN JORDAN’S SIX MONITORED GROUNDWATER BASINS. THE DIFFERENCE IS PARTICULARLY LARGE IN THE […]
Read more »Trading Water for Sun
April 25th, 2023
Courtesy of the Wilson Quarterly, a look at how the Abraham Accords opened the door for a green energy exchange between Israel and Jordan: Water scarcity has marked the relationship between Israel and Jordan since a peace treaty was signed between the two nations in 1994. With Israel’s desalination capacity surging and Jordan’s water supply growing scarcer, […]
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