http://www.readersdigest.com.au/content/28742
The Jordan River once delivered 1300 million cubic metres (mcm) of water a year. Now it’s down to barely 100 mcm and part of that is raw sewage. Tributaries have been reduced to a trickle by dams. Average rainfall is only about 50 millimetres a year.
Is this where they get dead sea salts from? If so, I won't be eating any dead sea salt or using any dead sea salt products? I know the salt should have stopped any bacteria from growing, but...
If you think water restrictions make life difficult in Australia...
For the Jordan River to flow again at its old rate would require Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to find substitute water supplies to meet their drinking water and irrigation needs. Jordan is already one of the driest countries on Earth: in summer, water is piped to houses for only a few hours every two weeks.
The Palestinian Authority, at loggerheads with Israel since the West Bank was occupied in 1967, sees Israelis washing cars and watering lawns while many of its own people are denied a water supply to their houses.
...In Jordan, our people get only 160 cubic metres of water per head a year, barely a quarter of the recognised minimum,
If the above is true....I've heard it said the next war will be about water... but hopefully the pipe will go ahead, at least taking some pressure off here