Managing Jordan's water resources: A monumental challenge

 

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 In this edition we look at a resource becoming ever scarcer across the world: water​. In Jordan​, where it has been source of concern for centuries, climate change and the effects of industrialisation are today taking a heavy toll. 

The kingdom is trying to find solutions to bring clean water to its people but also to save one of its natural wonders: the Dead Sea. 

In a Middle East marked by conflicts and tensions between neighbouring countries, only regional cooperation seems likely to avoid future water wars. FRANCE 24's Karim Hakiki, Achraf Abid and Clovis Casali report.

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• Jordan picks firms for ambitious canal project linking Dead Sea with Red Sea

• Israel's Dead Sea will dry out by 2050: experts

• Jordan gets 30 mln euros loan from Germany to finance water projects

• Συμφωνία μεταξύ Ισραήλ και Ιορδανίας για τη διάσωση της Νεκράς Θάλασσας

• Dead Sea: Environmentalists Question Pipeline Rescue Plan

• Israel, Jordan, Palestinians to sign Red Sea-Dead Sea deal

• NASA alert: Middle East loses fresh reserves size of Dead Sea in 7 years

• Το Ισραήλ κατηγορείται για «λεηλασία» της Νεκράς Θάλασσας 

• Jordan to launch 'first phase' of Dead Sea canal.

 

 

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 En Jordanie, citernes, réservoirs et canalisations datant de l'Antiquité rappellent l'importance vitale de la bonne gestion de l'eau dans ces vastes étendus arides. Infrastructures, irrigation, désalinisation : les solutions d'avenir sont nombreuses.

 Mais dans un Moyen-Orient marqué par les conflits et les tensions entre pays voisins, seule une coopération régionale semble pouvoir éviter de futures guerres de l'eau.