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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... environmental preconditions embodied in the local hydroclimate, the landscape topography and the hydrogeography, and the problems of past water management. The book provides some surprising insight: not even in a water-stressed country ...
... environmental preconditions embodied in the local hydroclimate, the landscape topography and the hydrogeography, and the problems of past water management. The book provides some surprising insight: not even in a water-stressed country ...
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... environmental change and conflict but of environmental change and acute national and international conflict, which is to say conflict involving a substantial probability of violence (Homer-Dixon 1991, p.77; emphasis as in original). Any ...
... environmental change and conflict but of environmental change and acute national and international conflict, which is to say conflict involving a substantial probability of violence (Homer-Dixon 1991, p.77; emphasis as in original). Any ...
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... Environmental Protection Agency has also produced a set of guidelines for water reuse (EPA 1992). As of now, however, no international quality standards apply to recycled water and, perhaps as a form of nontariff barrier, the European ...
... Environmental Protection Agency has also produced a set of guidelines for water reuse (EPA 1992). As of now, however, no international quality standards apply to recycled water and, perhaps as a form of nontariff barrier, the European ...
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... environmental problems, and megaproject fragility. The most common techniques for desalination involve either multistage flash distillation (repeated evaporation of the water until the salt content is greatly reduced) or reverse osmosis ...
... environmental problems, and megaproject fragility. The most common techniques for desalination involve either multistage flash distillation (repeated evaporation of the water until the salt content is greatly reduced) or reverse osmosis ...
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... environmental development. If designed as an international pump-storage system, with reservoirs and power stations optimally located on both sides of the border, Kally (1993) argues that Red Dead would be cheaper than Med Dead. He ...
... environmental development. If designed as an international pump-storage system, with reservoirs and power stations optimally located on both sides of the border, Kally (1993) argues that Red Dead would be cheaper than Med Dead. He ...
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