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Israel and Jordan on Feb. 26 signed a deal to provide drinking water to Jordan while helping revive the Dead Sea.
The agreement calls for a pipeline between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and a desalination plant in Aqaba, Jordan.
The plan calls for pumping some 200 million cubic meters of water from the Red Sea with some 30-50 million going to Israel for its southern port town of Eilat and nearby deser areas. The Jordanians would get up to 80 million cubic meters.
The agreement was signed by Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom and Jordan’s Water and Irrigation Minister Hazem Al Nasser. US envoys to the two countries.
“It’s a very historical moment,” Maya Eldar, an advisor to Shalom on the project, told The Jerusalem Post. “We’ve been working for so many years on this, and this is the first cooperation that is real – it’s for many years ahead.”
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