Middle East Troubled Waters: Mountain Aquifer

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Water is a source of conflict between Isreal and nearly all its neighbors. The struggle over land could just as easily be called a struggle over water, for without water, land produces little. In part one of our special series examining water in the Middle East, “Troubled Waters”, Living On Earth’s Sandy Tolan examines how water inequities are fueling tensions between the Palestianians and the Israelis.

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