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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By SHARON UDASIN 11/20/2013 Reaching a state in which the army is recycling 50% of its waste is a lofty goal, as the IDF is currently only recycling about 11 to 12%. Aiming to contribute to the environmental revolution that has swept up so many Israelis, the nation’s defense force intends to significantly slash its […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Nov 21, 2013 | 21:56 AMMAN — Restoration work on Dana Village, a gateway for the Dana Biosphere Reserve, is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of next year, a conservationist said on Thursday. “Properties and houses under restoration in Dana Village will be handed over to their owners […]

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Dolphin Reef placed nets over the coral and installed an iron structure on the sea floor, in the process damaging countless coral colonies, judge rules. By Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 14, 2013 The company that runs the Dolphin Reef in Eilat was fined NIS 350,000 on Tuesday for damaging coral in the Red Sea. The […]

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November 12, 2013 04:14 PM By Marc Preel Agence France Presse PARIS: Global warming is set to heat up with temperatures rising to nearly twice targets set by the United Nations, the International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday. This is despite pushes towards energy efficiency and a raft of international pledges to curb global warming, […]

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Sustainable Energy in Arab Countries: AFED report 2013 Ibrahim Abdel Gelil, Mohamed El-Ashry, Najib Saab 07/11/2013 Like many parts of the world, energy systems in the Arab region, which are dominated by fossil fuels, are not sustainable in economic, environmental or social terms. Although energy intensity and per capita carbon emissions are among the highest […]

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11/11/2013 Another Year AFED Working for Arab Environment: Revolutions do not Substitute Resource Management Najib Saab November 2013, issue 188 “Sustainable Energy” is the sixth annual report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) on the state of Arab environment. It is released at a time of decisive transformations across the Arab region. […]

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