Uzbekistan is a country in desperate need for a secure water supply as it is "double landlocked."
“Let us set water free to give life and hope to our region,” Israeli co-director of the organization Gideon Bromberg told United Nations Security Council on Monday.
Natural water flow in springs and rivers is decreasing rapidly nationwide.
The funds pledged for the Gaza Central Desalination Plant & Associated Works Project make up 80% of the total 562.3 euros needed. The EU plans to provide 77 million Euro for the project.
Only 3 percent of the water pumped from Gaza's only aquifer complies with the World Health Organization’s drinking water standards.
A water pipeline from Turkey to Jordan would relieve their water shortage and turn the country’s vast uninhabited desert into an oasis, providing homes and employment for millions of refugees.
No longer the economic challenge and strategic obsession it has been since the Jewish state’s inception, water has been trickling its way back into Israel’s evaporating lakes.
Trump envoy Jason Greenblatt calls on the Palestinian Authority to eject Hamas from power in Gaza.
The deal will release 33 million cubic meters of water to the PA, relieving a serious shortage in the Palestinian territories.
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