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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... Yarmouk River, which averages about 80% of the volume of the Upper Jordan, enters from the east and combines with the outflow from Lake Kinneret to form the Lower Jordan. The role of Lake Kinneret and the Jordan, and the peculiar ...
... Yarmouk River, which averages about 80% of the volume of the Upper Jordan, enters from the east and combines with the outflow from Lake Kinneret to form the Lower Jordan. The role of Lake Kinneret and the Jordan, and the peculiar ...
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... Yarmouk River is the final important source of surface water in the region. It forms the border between Jordan and Syria before it enters Israel and joins the Jordan just below Lake Kinneret. The Yarmouk has a very high winter flow that ...
... Yarmouk River is the final important source of surface water in the region. It forms the border between Jordan and Syria before it enters Israel and joins the Jordan just below Lake Kinneret. The Yarmouk has a very high winter flow that ...
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... River, which then combines with the Yarmouk River, the Zarqa River, various salt springs, and precipitation/runoff for an annual flow of 697 Mm3 (and a salinity level of 2 000 ppm) by the time it reaches the Dead Sea (Figure 10 provides ...
... River, which then combines with the Yarmouk River, the Zarqa River, various salt springs, and precipitation/runoff for an annual flow of 697 Mm3 (and a salinity level of 2 000 ppm) by the time it reaches the Dead Sea (Figure 10 provides ...
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... River in Lebanon, and the lower reaches of the Yarmouk River. These boundaries were initially drawn up by Aaron Aaronsohn, the head of an agricultural experiment station on the Mediterranean coast, and were based on watershed boundaries ...
... River in Lebanon, and the lower reaches of the Yarmouk River. These boundaries were initially drawn up by Aaron Aaronsohn, the head of an agricultural experiment station on the Mediterranean coast, and were based on watershed boundaries ...
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... Yarmouk River (later adopted in part by the Jordanian government), it also concluded that there were insufficient water resources in the river to sustain a Jewish state (Doherty 1965; Naff and Matson 1984). While these two surveys were ...
... Yarmouk River (later adopted in part by the Jordanian government), it also concluded that there were insufficient water resources in the river to sustain a Jewish state (Doherty 1965; Naff and Matson 1984). While these two surveys were ...
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