Friday, February 5, 2010

Jordan River,Israel,Palestine


Hi everyone,
I just wanted to summarize and share what the UN report 2006 explained about the case in Israel.

Case1: Jordan,The palestinian territories and Israel

Israel possesses more power and exploitation potential(technical capacity and infrastructure) than the palestinian territories.Thus overcome the disadvantage of being a downstream country.
The information on the UN human development report for 2006 clearly shows how lack of internationally recognized laws or center allows a country to dominate water resources.
Palestinians experience high level of water scarcity;both physical availability and political governance of shared water contribute to scarcity.
-occupied palestinian territories get per capita 320m3 annually(below absolute scarcity treshold).
-Israeli population is not more than twice of the palestinians but 7.5 times higher water consumption.
-Palestinians do not have established rights to the surface water resources of the Jordan river,and use mostly groundwater from aquifers.
-On the joint water commitee Israeli representatives regulate quantity and depth of wells operated by palestinians.
-Unused water in palestinian territories flows to Israeli territory & is extracted by wells on z Israeli side.
Finally these limitations on access to water are holding back agricultural development of palestine.
We need a plan for TWC!!

5 comments:

  1. Wow, that's crazy! I am amazed HOW bad the situation there is (in many levels).

    This is definitely an interesting and valuable case to handle in our project.

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  2. Hi all,

    Thank you for your excellent blog!

    It's of course a great idea to consider the case studies in your project, and this is a very interesting one. Just as an idea, it would be helpful to approach them via your project from a practical point of you, as part of your implementation stategy and as cases on analysing how the TWC could operate in this case, rather than concentrating on them as background studies. What do you think?

    Great work!

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  3. Right!its time to think how the TWC would practically operate(since the posssibility for more water disputes is somehow discussed.) The idea of choosing sample pilot projects,raised on our meeting with Ulla, was interesting.sth to work on...

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  4. I also felt that already at the beginning, that TWC would need exact cases to start with. So, I suggest we start to concentrate on those that are mentioned in Finland's international water strategy, as well as maybe Mekong (as there is so much knowledge plus this was also mentioned in the strategy as a cooperative partner or something like that).

    From my standpoint, also Finnish industry is interesting, because they are running like a headless horse towards Latin America, China and Indonesia, plus Tasmania is having some important contacts from Finland in their pulp mill case. I am honestly worried, that Finnish industry is not trained to take all water issues into consideration...

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  5. It will be interesting to see how you or TWC actually would solve some of those problematic situations

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