Jordan juggles water supply alternatives

A thirsty Amman is hostage to a pair of key water transfer projects. With seawater desalination not an option, it will have to take a bet on which one will deliver first.

Israeli officials say that Jordan may consider other options for increasing its water supplies if the proposed Red-Dead Sea Canal project does not move ahead. The World Bank is due to finance a two-year technical and economic feasibility study of the project, but growing opposition to the water transfer plan was voiced at a public hearing held in Israel in ...

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