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-NIGHTMARE- 12/08/2005 10:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Israel, Arabs agree to save Dead Sea SHUNEH, Jordan (AFP) May 22, 2005 Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority said Sunday they had agreed terms for a feasibility study on transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, to save the world´s lowest sea from vanishing. [link to www.terradaily.com] |
neti 12/08/2005 10:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought some of the problem lay with Turkey. Turkey had dammed the river, or is in process of damming it, which flows eastwards into the rest of the Middle East... There was a documentary about the water situation resulting from Turkey´s damming of the river, several years ago on television. Will try to look it up later. Going off-line for a little while. Thanks for posting, neti |
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neti 12/08/2005 10:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ´Turkey - It´s All in the Water´ Foreign Correspondent Broadcast: 04/07/2000 Reporter: Mark Corcoran [link to www.abc.net.au] "Most importantly, the downstream states of Iraq and Syria, who also rely on the rivers for water, warn of possible war over water in the future as the dams choke off their lifeblood" Also, the Iraqi wetlands are drying-up "the enormous Attaturk Dam on the Euphrates River in Turkey is starving the marshlands of water, and there are plans to build another on the Tigris in Turkey, the Ilisu Dam...|| The Attaturk Dam on the Euphrates River in Turkey is part of the South East Anatolia Project known as GAP after its Turkish initials. The project envisages 22 dams and 19 hydro-electric power plants on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and their tributaries. According to the Turkish Government, GAP is one of the most ambitious regional development projects ever attempted in the world. But the water which once fed the Mesopotamian Marshlands won’t only be used in Turkey. It may find its way into Israel, Palestine and Jordan. ´Mesopotamian Marshlands´ Earth Beat 29/3/2003 [link to www.abc.net.au] ____ daleth, UIC stands for Uranium Information Center. [link to www.uic.com.au] It´s based in Melbourne. |
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