by Hana Namrouqa AMMAN — Rainfall over the past two days channelled around 10 million cubic metres (mcm) of water into the country’s dams, which currently hold 31 per cent of their total capacity, a government official said on Thursday. The major dams, including the 101mcm Wihdeh Dam, currently hold 101mcm of their total capacity […]

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Environmental Protection Ministry launches list of air, sea, sewerage polluting factories in Israel for public review, awareness Alphi Shauli For the first time, the Environmental Protection Ministry posted a list of polluting companies in Israel and their emissions on its official website Sunday morning. The list will also be integrated into informative GIS maps and […]

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One-third of Jerusalem’s sewage runs untreated into the West Bank, ruining the historic Kidron Valley. Now an Israeli-Palestinian team is working to rehabilitate it. By Christa Case Bryant /December 6, 2013 / Source: The Christian Science Monitor [Chelsea Sheasley contributed reporting from Jerusalem] JERUSALEM; & UBIEDYEH, WEST BANK When 1 in 3 residents of Jerusalem […]

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In a complicated arrangement, the Israel Electric Corporation will buy coal, re-sell it to a foreign company and transport it to the border. By Avi Bar-Eli  | Dec. 3, 2013 | Ha’aretz, source A three-way agreement under which Israel will sell imported coal to Jordan via a group of private companies is expected to get […]

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Gaza Need Not Be a Sewer By Alon Tal and and Yousef Abu-Mayla OP-ED published Dec. 2, 2013. Source: NYTimes, access here For two decades, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists set aside their differences to call for urgent measures to address the impending water crisis in the Gaza Strip. These calls went unheeded. The price of […]

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Sagy, Gonen & Saulino, Vera. (2013). Evaluation and Monitoring of a Long-Term Peace and Environmental Education Program in a Region of Intractable Conflict. Empowering Sustainability International Journal, 1(1). Source: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/15j151tr Abstract: Managing long-term peace and environmental education programs toward positive encounters and peace building in a region of intractable conflict requires constant evaluation and monitoring […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Nov 25, 2013 AMMAN — Most countries in the Middle East are at risk of war because they have avoided regional cooperation in the water and other sectors, according to a new report. The “Water Cooperation for a Secure World, Focus on the Middle East” report by Strategic Foresight Group (SFG) […]

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November 26, 2013 12:20 AM By El Hassan bin Talal, Sundeep Waslekar United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly emphasized the need to explore the linkage between water, peace and security. Now, new research by the Strategic Foresight Group demonstrates that he has been right to do so. Empirical evidence in 148 countries and 205 […]

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JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Tuesday confiscated two pieces of digging equipment from a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank district of Jenin in order to prevent the construction of sewage wells, locals said. Israeli forces raided the village of Bartaa al-Sharqiya while locals were drilling sewage wells at the entrance to the […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Nov 26, 2013 | 22:12 Fifty per cent of expansion work on the Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant has been completed, according to the Millennium Challenge Account-Jordan (File photo) AMMAN — Weekly water supply hours in Zarqa Governorate will almost double within three years while water per capita will increase by 30 […]

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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Garbage collection vehicles in the Gaza Strip stopped working on Sunday due to lack of fuel, forcing local municipalities to use donkeys in order to collect garbage and waste from cities and villages across the region. Gaza municipality officials said that the garbage vehicles can no longer be used for waste […]

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Israeli firm Applied CleanTech develops system that picks out and recycles useful fibers from raw urban and industrial wastewater, increasing efficiency of treatment plants and reducing the amount of unwanted sludge Reuters Published: 11.25.13, 08:46 / Israel Business Israeli firm Applied CleanTech has developed a sewage mining system that picks out and recycles useful fibers […]

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by Taylor Luck | Nov 26, 2013 | 22:11 AMMAN — A joint Estonian-Malaysian consortium has entered final negotiations for vendor of Jordan’s first oil shale power plant, with a selection set to be unveiled soon to utilise the country’s vast shale oil reserves by the end of the decade. Andres Anijalg, project director at […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/26/20 Agriculture Ministry nixes plan for uprooting on school grounds The Agriculture Ministry’s chief forester has abolished the Tel Aviv Municipality’s plans to uproot trees growing on school grounds in the city’s Florentine neighborhood. This motion follows massive appeals from residents of the neighborhood and Society for the Protection of Nature in […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/26/2013 12:10 TASE reports signs of hydrocarbons, petroleum; findings are still “estimates and assumptions, which contain no certainty.” Stakeholders in a potential new natural gas reservoir announced significant signs of hydrocarbons in the field, based on tests carried out during exploratory drilling trials. Although the partners involved in exploring the new field […]

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EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) would like to bring to your attention 2 regional conferences that we held last week in the Middle East: “Rehabilitation of the Jordan River: A Commitment to Faith” FoEME held a region wide conference on November 10-12, 2013 on the northern shore of the Dead Sea […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/19/2013 Bureaucracy involved with developing energy resources in Israel may chase foreign companies away, Maj.-Gen. Yossi Peled warns. The bureaucratic impediments plaguing Israel’s natural gas sector are deterring foreign investment and putting the country at risk of falling behind potential competitors like Lebanon, an industry veteran stressed at a conference on Tuesday […]

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By NIV ELIS 11/13/2013 It could take 5 to 10 years to commercialize the patent-pending technology, researcher says at Tel Aviv conference. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Wednesday unveiled research on how to create fuel using carbon dioxide and water. “The technology is based on novel specially tailored catalysts and catalytic processes,” […]

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By SHARON UDASIN Region launches its second major solar field, an 8-megawatt medium-sized field at Kibbutz Neot Smadar. Under the constantly beaming rays of the Arava Desert sun, the Eilat-Eilot region has vowed to become entirely energy independent within two years’ time. The region launched its second major solar field, an eight-megawatt medium-sized field at […]

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Instead of constructing new neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities, the government should build in the open spaces within existing neighborhoods and strengthen run-down veteran locales. By Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 21, 2013 Concentration of power to the point of bureaucratic tyranny and disregard for the environmental repercussions of building plans − that’s the direction […]

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