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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

WATER CRISIS IN WEST ASIA

 SHRINKING SEA OF GALILEE
















* A French parliamentary report recently concluded that the 450,000 Israeli settlers who live on the West Bank of the River Jordan, in defiance of international opinion, use more water than the 2.3 million Palestinians whose home it is. 
* It is shrinking by a metre a year. It is only about two-thirds of the size it was in the 1930s.
* The ancients once believed it was certain death to try to sail across the Dead Sea - give it another 100 years or so and you'll be able to step over it.





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