With regional politics holding back release of any more water from Sea of Galilee, green groups hope that a revamped mining concession will protect the lake's future
Jordan is facing an existential challenge and it has nothing to do with the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the war in neighboring Syria, or the threat of militant Islamists. The challenge is climate change, which is responsible for poor rainy seasons over the past few years. The situation has become so bad that in the past few weeks the government admitted that six of the kingdom’s 14 active dams have now completely dried up, exacerbating endemic shortages of water used for drinking, irrigation, and industry.
The sudden decision by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to sign a declaration of intent to trade clean electricity for water has produced public opposition despite the fact that Jordan badly needs to add to its water supply due to the increase in population from the regional violence.
AMMAN Jordan has great potential to grow its economy and provide jobs through expanding its use of green energy, a report showed on Tuesday. The report is prepared by Phenix Centre for Economics & Informatics Studies, in cooperation with the German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and titled “Green Economy: Great Opportunities to Enhance Development”.The Kingdom, despite its