Dec 26, 2013 | 22:11 10 inShare “No, man! Just push in the other direction,” a youth told a person helping him push a car stuck in snow off Wasfi Tal Street in Amman during the recent snowstorm which hit the country. “Yallah, a little bit more and the driver will make it to the […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 12/24/2013 The park will be a home to research and development in energy conservation and environmental protection, among other industries. Aiming to integrate the Israeli innovative spirit with Chinese market capacity, private investors and government officials from China’s Zheijiang province have come together to build a future China-Israel Nanxun Innovation Industrial Park. […]

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Right-wing complaints have no basis; the government is working tirelessly and doing much to settle Jews in Israel’s Negev region. By Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 21, 2013 Recent right-wing complaints that the government is impotent when it comes to implementing plans to settle Jews in the Negev, supposedly out of fear of public criticism, are […]

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For many Palestinians ‘nature reserves’ means ‘reserved for Israeli settlements.’ By Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 18, 2013 Can Palestinians be recruited to fight for the environment? Not as long as preserving nature effectively means settlement expansion, as the case of the Nahal Kaneh nature reserve suggests. Palestinian farmers planted olive trees on part of the […]

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The Gaza Strip’s sewage treatment plants reportedly suffering frequent blackouts due to a dispute between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. By Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 22, 2013 Repeated failures of sewage treatment plants in the Gaza Strip has caused significant beach pollution in and around Ashkelon and endangered water quality in the Mediterranean Sea, recent […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Dec 23, 2013 As the weather warms up, more snow is melting and raising storage levels at the Kingdom’s dams, according to the Water Ministry (JT photo) AMMAN — Eighty-four per cent of the rainwater that entered the country’s dams since the start of the wet season was collected during the […]

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Re-diversion of water, law amendment and desalination operations are having major effect. By Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 22, 2013 The water flowing through Israel’s nature sites has increased tenfold over the past decade, and it’s expected to continue increasing due to new arrangements for supplying water to agriculture and the growing use of desalinated water. […]

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Dec 23, 2013 | 22:56 Updated: Dec 23, 2013 AMMAN — Jordan and the German Development Bank (KfW) on Monday signed a loan agreement for the project “Climate Protection in the Wastewater Sector”, according to a KfW statement. On behalf of the German government, KfW “will make available 20 million euros of loan financing”. The […]

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Who stands to gain from the historic deal signed to address a critical shortage of water in the region? Inside Story Last updated: 11 Dec 2013 An agreement between Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian ministers to provide new sources of water for the three neighbours, has been sold as a rare example of regional cooperation. And […]

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Op-ed: Rare moments of harmony witnessed in West Bank during snow storm will soon be over Published: 12.16.13 On Sunday I toured the snowy bank. A golden sun was shining, soft and bright, there was barely a tail of a cloud in the sky, the air was crystal clear, and visibility was magnificent – all […]

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MAAN Widespread flooding in Gaza forces thousands to flee homes By Alex Shams BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Gaza Strip was pounded by fierce winds and rain again on Friday as flooding reached dangerous levels in many areas, forcing thousands to flee their homes amid widespread power outages as temperatures plunged into the single digits. The […]

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Jordan to manufacture desalinated water in Aqaba and channel brine waste byproduct to Dead Sea; environmental group questions economics of the deal. By Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 9, 2013 Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement on a pipeline project Monday in Washington, under which Israel will supply Jordan with freshwater and Jordan […]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians signed a historic water-sharing initiative at the World Bank in Washington Monday that could protect water resources in the region amid rising demand. The project envisions a new desalination plant at Aqaba as the lynchpin of a sharing deal involving end-users in all three parties to the […]

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AFP After Dutch PM vist went sour because of Gaza related demands, Dutch water company cuts ties with Israel’s Mekorot due to ‘political context’ Dutch water firm cuts Israel ties after tense PM visit After Dutch PM vist went sour because of Gaza related demands, Dutch water company cuts ties with Israel’s Mekorot due to […]

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December 11, 2013 12:28 AM By Elias Sakr BEIRUT: Despite an annual rainfall average of 8 billion cubic meters, Lebanon posted a deficit of 73 million cubic meters in water supply in 2011, according to the latest available official statistics. Yet, the country could reverse the trend and generate more than $600 million from a […]

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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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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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