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water most nights, is
estimated to be losing as
much as 30 percent of its
water supply as a result of
old, leaking pipes.
In Egypt, up to two-thirds
of the water supply allocated
to cities and towns is being
lost through inefficient use,
while farmers along the fer-
tile Nile delta use twice as
much water as necessary be-
cause of primitive irrigation
techniques.
Saudi Arabia uses 90 per-
cent of its non-replenishable
deep- well fresh water sup-
plies for agricultural pro-
duce that could be imported
at one-tenth of the cost,
while Israel uses 70 percent
of its water for agriculture
and some 17 percent of its
energy resources simply to
pump water around the
country.
A complicating political
factor in Israel's calcula-
tions, and a cause for sober
consideration by those ad-
vocating a return of the oc-
cupied territories, is that no
less than 40 percent of
Israel's fresh water is de-
rived from aquifers beneath
the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, representing 95 per-
cent of the aquifers in the oc-
cupied territories.
The Jordan River, which is
shared by Israel and the
Hashemite kingdom, is now
so overused that its increas-
ingly saline water can ir-
rigate only some of the most
salt-resistant crops.
Even so, the subject of
water allocation from the
river is a matter of constant
haggling between Israeli
and Jordanian officials. Ac-
cording to sources in Lon-
don, the flow is so meticu-
lously monitored and the
supplies so carefully
allocated that the debate
between the two sides
overheated when Israel re-
cently removed a large
boulder in the river that
slightly increased its share
of the water flow.
Indeed, so critical is this
natural resource as a factor
in Middle East politics these
days that Jordan's King
Hussein has reportedly told
visitors that water is the
only factor that would in-
duce him to go to war
against Israel again.
Relief may come if Israel
can strike a deal with Leb-
anon over water from the
Litani River and with Jor-
dan over the untapped Yar-
muk River, where Hussein
had planned to build a $350
million "unity dam" which
would essentially supply
water to Jordan and Syria.
Observers do not doubt
that Israel, which claims a
share of the Yarmuk, would
take drastic action if it were
excluded from a strictly Jor-
danian-Syrian division of
the water, and plans to con-
struct the dam broke down
over what the Jordanians
consider to be excessive
Israeli demands for its share
of the Yarmuk waters.
Israeli experts are now
predicting a water shortfall
of up to 30 percent by the
end of the decade; Syria and
Iraq are expected to suffer
shortfalls of up to 60 percent,
while Jordanian experts are
forecasting that by the year
2010 they will require about
twice as much water as they
currently consume.
Both Saudi Arabia and
Libya have embarked on
hideously expensive water-
development projects, both
of which bear the hallmarks
of desperation rather than
cool, long-term strategic
planning.
Riyadh has already spent
at least $20 billion on a
seawater desalinisation
plant which provides less
than 3 percent of its water
supplies, while Libya's
Muammar Gaddafi has em-
barked on a characteristical-
ly bizarre scheme, a $24
billion project which he has
dubbed "The Eighth Wonder
of the World."
The Libyan plan involves
the construction of massive
concrete pipes to carry water
to the coastal plain from
non- replenishable
underground lakes deep in
Libya's southern desert. The
lakes are expected to dry up
shortly after the project is
completed within Da years.
A more realistic prospect
for Israel is contained in a
recent agreement with
Turkey to purchase up to
250 million cubic meters of
water a year — equivalent to
almost the annual amount
provided by the National
Water Carrier — at a cost of
up to 35 cents per cubic
meter.
It is envisaged that the
Turkish water will be
shipped to Israel in huge
plastic barges, and in-
frastructure work alone, in-
cluding the construction of
special terminals and addi-
tional pipelines, is expected
to cost around $200 million.
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