Desalination: A Solution to Israel’s Water Woes?
Israel’s water supply is on the verge of a state of emergency. The Israeli government has proposed an increase in desalination as the solution, and has made a plan to greatly expand their desalination program by 2020. However, the human, environmental, and financial costs of this method have not been fully explored. In a recently […]
Bakoura: A National Peace Park in the Near Future?
Sunday, April 15th, 2012: The Visit We stood on the edge of the cliff and took it all in. Suited parliamentarians from the Committee of Environment and Health in the Lower House of Parliament, FoEME staff, military members and journalists alike gazed at the view afforded by the blue sky, hazy mountains, and rolling fields. […]
Jordanian Palestinian Media Workshop: Local Water Management and Environmental Education
Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) hosted a workshop at the Marriott Dead Sea Resort and Spa for journalists and media experts from Jordan and Palestine from the 26th to the 28th of March. As the final event in FoEME’s Transboundary Advocacy of Parliamentarians (TAP) project, the workshop was designed to inform journalists about environmental issues in the region and […]
Making Rivers Meet: A Tour along the Jordan River with Chris Hammer
As part of the recent visit by Australian journalist Chris Hammer, author of The River, a book on the Murray-Darling River, Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) organized tours of both sides of the Lower Jordan River to better acquaint the visiting expert with the river, its environment and political context. The post below […]
Lessons from Australia: Australian Journalist Chris Hammer Visits Lower Jordan River Basin with FoEME
“The Murray-Darling River is confronted with high levels of salinity, its wetland ecosystems are endangered, its water is diverted and used inefficiently, especially in agriculture, and in some years, its waters do not reach the estuary. Does this sound familiar?” This is how Chris Hammer, an Australian journalist with 20 years of experience, author of […]
Lessons from Australia for the lower Jordan River (Chris Hammer Series, Part 1 of 3)
Chris Hammer is a journalist and expert on Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. This three-part blog series explores lessons learned from his visit, particularly parallels between Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin rehabilitation and FoEME’s efforts to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River. FoEME’s Israeli director Gidon Bromberg, was originally published by Jerusalem Post on March 28th, 2012. On a family visit to Australia […]
Jordanian Parliamentarians visit the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the Jordan Valley
From March 19th-24th, Their Excellencies Ghazi Musharbash, Ali Malkawi, and Bassam Al Omari joined FoEME staff on a tour of sites along the Lower Jordan River Basin in Israel and Palestine. This visit was a follow-up to the Feb 2nd-4th Transboundary Advocacy of Parliamentarians (TAP) Regional Meeting, where the Jordanian Parliamentarians requested a cross-border visit […]
Test your knowl…
Test your knowledge: The Jordan EcoPark – Quiz! FoEME administers EcoCenters and EcoParks in Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. This quiz covers the Sharhabil Ben Hassneh EcoPark (SHE Park) in North Jordan. Test how much you know – or how good you are at guessing! 1. Where is the SHE Park located? a) In Saudi Arabia b) Outer […]
Test your knowledge: The Palestine EcoCenter – Quiz!
FoEME runs EcoCenters and EcoParks in Palestine, Jordan, and Israel. This quiz covers the Al Auja Environmental Center and the town of Al Auja itself next to Jericho,Palestine. Test how much you know – or how good you are at guessing! 1. Where are the town Al Auja and Auja Environmental Center located? a) Between France […]
Jordan Flirts with Nuclear Energy, Though Process Remains Opaque
One year after Fukushima’s warning to the world, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan moves ever closer to the construction of a nuclear energy power plant. Jordan’s King Abdullah recently returned from a nuclear power summit in South Korea where, according to King Abdullah’s press release, he engaged in talks “in line with Jordan’s compliance and […]