Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water Issues – From Conflict to CooperationHillel Shuval, Hassan Dweik Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M07 30 - 454 pages Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues – From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other. Nevertheless it is a book which demonstrates hope, - timism and belief that people with good will in their hearts can help contribute to finding the way to peace and mutual cooperation in so- ing shared problems essential for their mutual survival and welfare. nd The participants in the 2 Israeli- Palestinian International Conference on Water for Life in the Middle East held in Antalya Turkey in October 2004, which served as the source of most of the papers in this book concluded the Conference with the following declaration: We two hundred participants in this Israeli-Palestinian International Conference ... complete our conference with a sense of optimism. It is clear that the Palestinian and Israeli participants, along with their international partners remain committed to solving the many challenges associated with water quantity and quality in our region. |
Contents
Jordan River and Dead Sea | 67 |
Formulating A Regional Policy for the Future of the Dead Sea | 109 |
Water Trade and Water Markets | 117 |
Virtual Water in the Water Resource Management of | 133 |
Water Conflicts and International Water Markets | 147 |
Water Transfer from Turkey to WaterStressed Countries | 165 |
Socioeconomic Development and Benefit Sharing in | 184 |
Reappraising the Oslo Water Regime | 203 |
Water Resource Management | 309 |
Resource Conservation | 341 |
Impact of Climate Change | 355 |
Mitigating Negative Impacts of Global Warming on Water Resources | 379 |
Mutual Dependencies of Land Use | 387 |
Water and Wastewater Technology in the Middle East | 396 |
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Olive Mill Wastewater in Jordan | 409 |
Pollution of the Mountain Aquifer by Sewage | 417 |
U S Sponsored Conflict Resolution Through Cooperation in | 225 |
Application | 257 |
Effects of the Separation Barrier on the Viability of a Future | 273 |
International Water Law | 291 |
Potential Use of New Geological Findings for Water Exploitation | 427 |
Index | 443 |
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Page 213 - Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Page 123 - One should not be confused by such use of marginal valuation The fact that water is necessary for human life is taken into account in WAS by assigning large benefits to the first relatively small quantities of water allocated. But the fact that the benefits derived from the first units are greater than the marginal value does not distinguish water from any other economic good It merely reflects the fact that demand curves slope down and that water would be (even) more valuable if it were scarcer...
Page 187 - During the filling up period of the Ataturk Dam reservoir and until the final allocation of the waters of the Euphrates among the three riparian countries...
Page 126 - The fact that water ownership is a matter of money can be brought home in a different way. It is common for countries to regard water as essential to their security because water is essential for agriculture and countries wish to be self-sufficient in their food supply. This may or may not be a sensible goal, but the possibility of desalination 1 ' This is an application of the well-known Coase Theorem of economics.
Page 123 - It is the scarcity of water and not merely it$ importance far existence that gives water its value. Where water is not scarce, it is not valuable. WAS provides a powerful tool for the analysis of the costs and benefits of various infrastructure projects. For example, if one runs the model without assuming the existence of seawater desalination facilities, then the shadow values in coastal districts provide a cost target that seawater desalination must meet to be economically viable.
Page 130 - Problems and Conclusions Naturally, there are a number of issues that arise when considering such a cooperative arrangement. Chief among them is that of security. What if one of the partners to such a scheme were to withdraw? Of course, such withdrawal would be contrary to the interest of the withdrawing party, but, as we have sadly seen, people and governments do not always act in their own long-run self-interest. The main cost of such a withdrawal would occur if the non-withdrawing party had failed...
Page 127 - B getting other things which it values more (Note that this does not mean that the richer country gets more water That only happens if it is to the poorer country's benefit to agree ) Of course, the positions of the parties will be expressed in terms of ownership rights and international law, often using different principles to justify their respective claims The use of the methods here described in no way limits such positions Indeed, the point is not that the model can be used to help decide how...
Page 214 - A security complex is defined as "a set of states whose major security perceptions and concerns are so interlinked that their national security problems cannot reasonably be analyzed or resolved apart from one another" (Buzan, Waever, and de Wilde 1998: 12).
Page 288 - Non-discrimination: health facilities, goods and services must be accessible to all, especially the most vulnerable or marginalized sections of the population, in law and in fact, without discrimination on any of the prohibited...
Page 288 - Partnership (2002), refers to the range of political, social, economic and administrative systems that are in place to regulate the development and management of water resources and provision of water services at different levels of society.