Water in the Middle East

Water in the Middle East

INTO THE FRAY: Sinai – The descent into depravity

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column: Sinai – The descent into depravity (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) Ironically, the case of Sinai, once held up as the crowning vindication of the land-for-peace principle is likely to turn out to be its one of its most tragic and traumatic failures. […]

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Egypt, Ethiopia and the Nile

By MALCOLM DASH  – Originally published in The Jerusalem Post, March 14, 2016 The prospective deal is important because it marks a move away from Egypt’s historical insistence on maintaining colonial-era agreements on water rights. When Egypt’s then president Mohamed Morsi said in June 2013 that “all options” including military intervention were on the table if […]

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WATER IN ISRAEL: The Dry Facts

First of all, my son, see to it you are always camped upstream and your adversaries downstream — North American Indian Adage A.  Introduction – An Overview of the Study In recent years the water problem in Israel has been increasingly thrust onto the public agenda. Up until the early ’80s, debate on the subject […]

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Delusion of desalination

West Bank, Golan withdrawals would put Israel’s water supply at risk. The latest report from Mekorot, Israel’s national water corporation, published a few days ago, starkly underscores the nation’s grave hydro-strategic position i.e. its rapidly dwindling supply of water. This is a shortage that is swiftly – but not unexpectedly – developing into an acute […]

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Amnesty’s travesty

The Israeli occupation changed local agriculture profoundly. It introduced modern technology, including mechanization, precision tillage, pest control, plastic covering of crops for temperature control, high yielding varieties, postharvest processing of produce, marketing and export outlets. It also introduced efficient methods of irrigation, including sprinkler and especially drip irrigation. Consequently, output increased greatly, and farming was […]

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