[lbo-talk] Water Wars

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall at adelphia.net
Sun May 30 11:39:18 PDT 2004


Israel lays claim to Palestine's water

10:15 27 May 04

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Israel has drawn up a secret plan for a giant desalination plant to supply drinking water to the Palestinian territory on the West Bank. It hopes the project will diminish pressure for it to grant any future Palestinian state greater access to the region's scarce supplies of fresh water.

Under an agreement signed a decade ago as part of the Oslo accord, four-fifths of the West Bank's water is allocated to Israel, though the aquifers that supply it are largely replenished by water falling onto Palestinian territory.

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