Water-sharing deal has brought conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over massive hydroelectric dam closer to resolution. Campbell MacDiarmid | 10 Mar 2015 A long-simmering water conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt has moved a step closer to resolution, after the countries’ foreign ministers announced last week they had reached a preliminary agreement on sharing Nile water. […]

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BEIRUT: Unlicensed water companies have three months to ensure their products are safe to drink, Health Minister Wael Abu Faour said Wednesday, urging them to obtain government certificates. “We will not allow the sale of polluted water to the public,” Abu Faour said, indicating that the ministry intended to shut establishment who continued to violate […]

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While water experts and environmental activists are widely praising Israel’s decision, many argue the increase is simply not enough. Source (click) By SHARON UDASIN ,  06/03/2015 Israel’s decision to double its water allocations to Gaza is a positive step forward, environmental experts said Thursday, but agreed that it is still far from sufficient to satisfy […]

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A political battle to install a water pipeline for the first planned Palestinian city of Rawabi is now over, with Palestinian American entrepeneur finally able to reach his goal of establishing a beautiful city in area A of the West Bank. Smadar Peri Published: 03.04.15 Bashar al-Masri, a Palestinian American entrepreneur, has finally followed-through with […]

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Two Seas Canal will help rehabilitate Dead Sea by pumping water from Red Sea, provide solutions to Jordan’s chronic water problems. AFP Published: 02.26.15 Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages. The official Petra news […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 02/26/2015 Signing the agreement on Thursday is National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom, alongside his Jordanian counterpart, Water and Irrigation Minister Hazim El-Naser. Bringing a historic deal to fruition, Israeli and Jordanian government officials on Thursday afternoon are signing a bilateral agreement to exchange water and jointly funnel Red Sea […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 03/01/2015 Conveyance of the sewage by means of the new pipeline was part of a NIS 40m. scheme. As part of an ongoing project to rehabilitate the once heavily contaminated Jordan River, Tiberias sewage will soon flow to a new treatment facility, the Water Authority announced on Sunday. Construction of both a […]

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Can an Agricultural Project Really Overcome Years of Bitter Tribalism? by Assaf Dudai, February 15, 2015 Source: http://magazine.good.is/features/olive-oil-without-borders-israel-palestine “There is no real border between Israel and Palestine,” says Muhammad Hamudi, an olive farmer and olive oil producer from Asira al-Shamaliya, near Nablus in the West Bank. He has been working with the ongoing USAID-funded project […]

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The academic Journal Israel Studies has published a new Issue with a special section on Landscapes. It contains the following articles: Special Section: Landscapes Tal Alon-Mozes, Matanya Maya: “Zippori National Park as a Composite Narrative” pp. 1-30 Maoz Azaryahu, Yitzhak Reiter: “The Geopolitics of Interment: An Inquiry into the Burial of Muhammad Ali in Jerusalem, […]

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