Click here (ynetnews) to lean about the latest efforts at revitalizing the endangered Biblical river...
Do you think that modern farmers, industrialists, and religious pilgrims can unite to save the waterway that is crucial for them all?
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We are looking at a piece of mankind, and we see that man gravitates toward survival. Water is a matter of survival today and forever. Regarding time,it will see fruition, hopefully now. Cynthia Williams
How will this effect water rights in the future? Will Israel, in the future, lay claim to the Jordan, stating that because [the country] cleaned up the river, that they deserve the most water to it? I'm curious as to what underlying motives may exist - what politics there are as the question of water rights has been studied more in depth these last few years. How will this effect Syria and Jordan?
All very good questions, Brayden... and only time will tell. Watersheds don't abide by human boundaries, after all (as we've seen with the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates). Israel has two of the Jordan's four headwater-springs... but Lebanon has the other two... and the Hermon mountain range straddles Lebanon and Syria (which, as we're witnessing right now, is not the most politically stable place). Then there's (the nation) Jordan, which has the feeder-waters from the Yarmouk and Jabbok rivers. Top this all off with perpetual Arab-Israeli tensions, and you've got a recipe for strife, if not outright conflict... especially if the waters run low.
3 comments:
We are looking at a piece of mankind, and we see that man gravitates toward survival. Water is a matter of survival today and forever. Regarding time,it will see fruition, hopefully now.
Cynthia Williams
How will this effect water rights in the future? Will Israel, in the future, lay claim to the Jordan, stating that because [the country] cleaned up the river, that they deserve the most water to it? I'm curious as to what underlying motives may exist - what politics there are as the question of water rights has been studied more in depth these last few years. How will this effect Syria and Jordan?
Brayden
All very good questions, Brayden... and only time will tell. Watersheds don't abide by human boundaries, after all (as we've seen with the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates). Israel has two of the Jordan's four headwater-springs... but Lebanon has the other two... and the Hermon mountain range straddles Lebanon and Syria (which, as we're witnessing right now, is not the most politically stable place). Then there's (the nation) Jordan, which has the feeder-waters from the Yarmouk and Jabbok rivers. Top this all off with perpetual Arab-Israeli tensions, and you've got a recipe for strife, if not outright conflict... especially if the waters run low.
pdk
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