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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 »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 »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 »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, […]
Read more »Via Diplomatic Courier, commentary that – instead of driving tensions and even war between nations – climate change may actually bring nations closer together: In September 2020, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed a diplomatic normalization agreement widely known as the Abraham Accords. Afterwards, other Arab countries, such as Sudan and Morocco, started […]
Read more »Via Reuters, an article on Israel’s efforts to refill the Sea of Galilee: When the floodgates are open, a torrent of water gushes into a dry river bed and races to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a biblical lake in northern Israel that was being lost to drought and the growing population around […]
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