Transboundary Water Issues in Israel Palestine and the Jordan River Basin

This book highlights the search for permanent freshwater agreements between Israel Palestine and the western portions of Jordan and underscores the benefits of shared water management among the three countries.  Throughout the book efforts are made to share transboundary water in ways that are simultaneously physically feasible ecologically sustainable and socially equitable.  Thanks to the Peace Treaty between Israel and Jordan the management of shared water resources has been working well though future relationships are uncertain at present. However the current arrangements for Israel and Palestine are at best inadequate and in some cases counterproductive. In closing the book argues that trilateral agreements on water can and should be concluded now before seeking to resolve the full range of issues that remain uncertain in a Final Status Agreement between Israel and Palestine.