Conflict over water in cross-border river basins – the need for peaceful cooperation

Submitted by sendog6913 on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 10:47am

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Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Conflict over water in cross-border river basins – the need for peaceful cooperation

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Mighty River Jordan matters more than any other river – for three religions, for the people living alongside it, for thousands of years of history and as both a joint resource and a dividing line for countries in today's rather difficult political environment. But the respect given to it does not reflect this importance. There is overuse and pollution all along the river, and once it reaches the Dead Sea, massive overuse of its water upstream has reduced it to a rivulet of sewage.

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Conflict over water in cross-border river basins – the need for peaceful cooperation

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The World’s Worst War

Submitted by sendog6913 on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 2:28pm

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JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

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LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I came upon the body of a Congolese soldier. He was on his back, half hidden in the bushes, his legs crumpled beneath him, his fly-covered face looking up at the sun.

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The World’s Worst War

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San Diego Green Scene in Partnership with Renewable Energy Society

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03/12/14

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San Diego Graphic Designers Guild Meetup

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04/16/14

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San Diego Graphic Designers Guild - "How creative people can use social media for business”

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03/05/14

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02/11/14

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03/18/14

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Mid-East governments sign Red Sea-to-Dead Sea water deal

Submitted by Anonymous[curre... (not verified) on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:24pm

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BBC News

Dead Sea The surface of the Dead Sea is falling by about a metre a year

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Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have signed a water sharing pact aimed at one day replenishing the rapidly drying Dead Sea.

The agreement will build a pipeline to carry brine from a desalination plant at the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, while providing drinking water to the region.

The Dead Sea is dropping by as much as 1m (3.3ft) a year as the River Jordan is depleted for use in irrigation.

But critics fear the plan's impact on the Dead Sea's fragile ecosystem.

Such a project has been under discussion for years.

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Mid-East governments sign Red Sea-to-Dead Sea water deal

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Asia

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03/13/14

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02/12/14

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