Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictIDRC, 2014 M05 14 - 310 pages Watershed describes the water crisis faced by Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories today; a crisis that will have much to do with the design and the success of the current peace proposals. The authors examine the geopolitics of water in the region, the economic importance, problems of water supply and water quality, and regional conflicts over water. |
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... River, which rises in Lebanon; and one-quarter from the Banias River, which rises on the Golan Heights. The absence of full control over the headwaters of the Jordan River plays, as will be demonstrated, a critical role in Israeli water ...
... River, which rises in Lebanon; and one-quarter from the Banias River, which rises on the Golan Heights. The absence of full control over the headwaters of the Jordan River plays, as will be demonstrated, a critical role in Israeli water ...
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... River. Northern tributaries to the Jordan River, which deliver approximately 540 Mm3 to Lake Kinneret (Kolars 1992a), come from Lebanon (the Hasbani River), Israel (the Dan Spring), and the Golan Heights (the Banias River and Hermon ...
... River. Northern tributaries to the Jordan River, which deliver approximately 540 Mm3 to Lake Kinneret (Kolars 1992a), come from Lebanon (the Hasbani River), Israel (the Dan Spring), and the Golan Heights (the Banias River and Hermon ...
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... River system . This contention is based on a discussion Myers had with General Moshe Dayan in the mid - 1970s ... Banias River into the Yarmouk River continued in 1966 and 1967 ( Wolf 1995 ) . These attacks were the result of tensions ...
... River system . This contention is based on a discussion Myers had with General Moshe Dayan in the mid - 1970s ... Banias River into the Yarmouk River continued in 1966 and 1967 ( Wolf 1995 ) . These attacks were the result of tensions ...
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... River via a tunnel into the Litani; the second involved construction of a canal to divert both the Hasbani and the Banias rivers into the Yarmouk River for irrigation in both Syria and Jordan (Figure 11) (Doherty 1965). What makes the ...
... River via a tunnel into the Litani; the second involved construction of a canal to divert both the Hasbani and the Banias rivers into the Yarmouk River for irrigation in both Syria and Jordan (Figure 11) (Doherty 1965). What makes the ...
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... Banias rivers, eastward to include territory for a conduit along the shores of Lake Hula, and upstream on the Yarmouk to allow for a set of impoundments along the river (Mekorot 1944; also noted in Fishelson 1989 and Wolf 1995) ...
... Banias rivers, eastward to include territory for a conduit along the shores of Lake Hula, and upstream on the Yarmouk to allow for a set of impoundments along the river (Mekorot 1944; also noted in Fishelson 1989 and Wolf 1995) ...
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