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Washington (JTA) —
There was an effort to play
down political conflict and
promote pragmatic solutions
at the two-day round of
multilateral talks on Middle
East water resources held
here last week.
Indeed, the urgency of the
region's water problems
could provide an important
impetus for Arab-Israeli co-
operation, according to the
head of Israel's delegation to
the talks, Dan Zaslaysky.
Five sets of multilateral
talks on various regional
issues being held throughout
the world are designed to
supplement and build con-
fidence for the bilateral
peace talks now in progress
here involving the Israelis,
Palestinians, Jordanians,
Syrians and Lebanese.
There is "no question"
that the talks "affect each
other," Mr. Zaslaysky, who
is a professor at the Tech-
nion-Israel Institute of
Technology, said in an ap-
pearance at the National
Press Club.
"The multilaterals help by
making open contacts" bet-
ween Arabs and Israelis
"possible and acceptable,"
he said.
Mr. Zaslaysky, who was
Israel's water commissioner
until earlier this month, said
the Washington round, at-
tended by technical experts
from more than 30 nations,
was characterized by a sense
of urgency.
There was a recognition
that "unless we do some-
thing quickly," he said, "we
will damage the system and
destroy the few resources" of
the Middle East.
There was a feeling, he
said, "that we shouldn't wait
until every (regional) con-
flict is settled but get to
work and make up for the
time lost."
He said even the thorny
question of water rights
would have to take a back
seat to Arab-Israeli coop-
erative efforts to address
enhanced water manage-
ment.
Mr. Zaslaysky said there
was an attempt at the talks
to "forego politics" and em-
phasize water technology to
find some answers that will
ultimately provide a model
for the rest of the world.
"The trouble with arid
land" in the Middle East is
"its extreme sensitivity to
misuse," said Mr. Zaslaysky,
but "humid areas will suffer
from the same problems."
Experts from countries

with bountiful water sup-
plies are therefore par-
ticipating in the talks be-
cause "the lessons learned in
the Middle East can be
transferred to the rest of the
world" to "meet the coming
crisis," he said. "We all sit
in the same boat."
The experts concluded that
better water management is
key, he said, adding that
more efficient farming tech-
niques could increase water
production as much as
fivefold.
Mr. Zaslaysky said the
other fundamental conclu-
sion reached was that
desalination is the most im-
portant technology for the
future.
With the proliferation of
chemical compounds that
become more and more
difficult to track, countries
will resort increasingly to
desalination as the
"ultimate technology to be
sure water is free from all
chemicals," he said.
Finally, the participants
agreed an effort must be

The urgency of the
region's water
problems could
provide an
important impetus.

made to close the current
gap between the cost of
water and agriculture's abil-
ity to pay for it. But even
countries with an ample
water supply cannot afford
to subsidize water so that it
is nearly free to farmers,
said Mr. Zaslaysky.
He said a system where
water is sold at cost would
encourage farmers who are
more efficient.
Meanwhile, more water
must be transferred from
agriculture to municipal and
industrial use, he said,
citing his own recent in-
itiative as water commis-
sioner to cut by one-third the
allotment of water to Israeli
farmers.
Of all the countries in the
Middle East, Israel and Jor-
dan have the severest water
problems, said Mr. Zaslav-
sky. They have the lowest
amount of potential water
and lack other resources,
such as oil, to help solve
technical problems.
He also said the West
Bank aquifer is particularly
subject to overuse and that
the solution must be ap-
proached cooperatively by
the Israelis and Palestinians
who live there.

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