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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... agricultural policy. Even in a water-scarce region such as the Jordan River Basin, the conventional question of How much water do we need and where do we get it? is paramount. As Lonergan and Brooks note, in the Israeli submission to ...
... agricultural policy. Even in a water-scarce region such as the Jordan River Basin, the conventional question of How much water do we need and where do we get it? is paramount. As Lonergan and Brooks note, in the Israeli submission to ...
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... agriculture, and both of Israel s main political coalitions, Labour (Avodah) and Likud, use water as a debating ... agricultural and industrial pollution are endangering sources of drinking water and that municipalities should improve ...
... agriculture, and both of Israel s main political coalitions, Labour (Avodah) and Likud, use water as a debating ... agricultural and industrial pollution are endangering sources of drinking water and that municipalities should improve ...
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... agricultural wastes, and in some cases by human sewage. - Finally, Israel s water crisis also has a geopolitical dimension. Roughly one-third of the water consumed in Israel comes from groundwater that originates as rainfall over the ...
... agricultural wastes, and in some cases by human sewage. - Finally, Israel s water crisis also has a geopolitical dimension. Roughly one-third of the water consumed in Israel comes from groundwater that originates as rainfall over the ...
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... agricultural; and industrial. Then, too, there is a problem with complementarity, as each country typically has its own set of data and is unwilling to accept the often conflicting data from another country or from an international ...
... agricultural; and industrial. Then, too, there is a problem with complementarity, as each country typically has its own set of data and is unwilling to accept the often conflicting data from another country or from an international ...
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... agriculture of the north-to-south variation in rainfall is magnified by increasing differences between precipitation and evapotranspiration, particularly during the summer months. As shown in Figure 4, in the north of Israel ...
... agriculture of the north-to-south variation in rainfall is magnified by increasing differences between precipitation and evapotranspiration, particularly during the summer months. As shown in Figure 4, in the north of Israel ...
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