Towards a Living Jordan River: An Environmental Flows Report on the Rehabilitation of the Lower Jordan River

This new environmental flows study provides a first-ever regional study of the Lower Jordan River undertaken by Jordanian, Israeli and Palestinian experts.

It identifies the current conditions of the Lower Jordan River and proposes a regional strategy to rehabilitate the historic river.

This study concludes that 400-600 million cubic meters (mcm) of water are needed to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River.

FoEME recommends that Israel allocate 220 mcm, Syria 100 mcm and Jordan 90 mcm of water to meet this rehabilitation goal. In addition, FoEME recommends that Palestine, as a riparian to the river, receive a fair share of the Lower Jordan River's water resources.

Contact information	Mira Edelstein, Resource Development, Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) (email: mira@foeme.org)
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://foeme.org/uploads/publications_publ117_1.pdf
File link local	publications_publ117_1.pdf (PDF, 898 Kb)
Source of information	Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)
Keyword(s)	river rehabilitation
Subject(s)	HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Relation	http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2011/04/model-water-agreement-between-israel-and-pa/
Geographical coverage	Palestine, Jordan, Israel,
News date	06/04/2011
Working language(s)	ENGLISH