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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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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