There are three major stakeholders in the Jordan Valley: Jordan,
the Palestinian Authority and Israel. As we have reported here,
the pressures on water in the Jordan valley are acute. Israel,
which shares responsibility for the problem with other countries
along the Jordan, is also part of a solution. In cooperation
with Jordan, Israel has re-established the Kinneret (known in
the UK as the Sea of Galilee) as the Jordan’s source. From the
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, a piece circulated by Friends of the
Earth Middle East: “The Israel Water Authority will shortly
begin, for the first time, to pump water regularly from Lake
Kinneret into the southern Jordan River in an effort to
ecologically rehabilitate the river, the authority announced
Thursday. This was part of the Friends of the Earth Middle East,
Good Water Neighbours project.” Israel is particularly
responsible for the amount of water which flows to the Lower
Jordan, and the amounts of water it has pledged fall drastically
short of those required to reple