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&ldquo;Each family here gets water one day a week, but the week lasts eight  days since there are eight families,&rdquo; Kayan Manasra, the Palestinian  Coordinator of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME), a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian NGO, told The Media  Line. &ld&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hippocrates of Cos]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Hippocrates of Cos]]></source><link>http://hippocratesofcos.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14274822-israels-separation-barrier-could-ancient-way-of-farming-since-roman-times</link><guid>http://hippocratesofcos.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14274822-israels-separation-barrier-could-ancient-way-of-farming-since-roman-times</guid><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>environment</category><category>unesco</category><category>palestine</category><category>israeli-supreme-court</category><category>world-heritage-committee</category><category>separation-wall</category><category>friends-of-the-earth-middle-east</category><category>united-nations-educational</category><category>scientific-and-cultural-organization</category><category>barrier-wall</category><category>battir</category><category>foeme</category><category>wallaje</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:29:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=HippocratesofCos04472913-354A-7FD5-1F54-E5A7AF1EAB2A.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="180" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=HippocratesofCos04472913-354A-7FD5-1F54-E5A7AF1EAB2A.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="54" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Israel, Jordan taking steps to clean up Jordan River water</title>
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The water of the Jordan River, debilitated by waste and intensely  utilized for agriculture, may finally become cleaner thanks to steps now  being taken by the governments of Israel and Jordan.
The Environmental Protection Ministry and the Ministry for the  Development of the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hippocrates of Cos]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Hippocrates of Cos]]></source><link>http://hippocratesofcos.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/01/14174998-israel-jordan-taking-steps-to-clean-up-jordan-river-water</link><guid>http://hippocratesofcos.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/01/14174998-israel-jordan-taking-steps-to-clean-up-jordan-river-water</guid><category>israel</category><category>pollution</category><category>jordan</category><category>environment</category><category>west-bank</category><category>not-news</category><category>jericho</category><category>beit-shean</category><category>jordan-river</category><category>friends-of-the-earth-middle-east</category><category>gidon-bromberg</category><category>kinneret</category><category>environmental-protection-ministry</category><category>commentid-environment</category><category>ministry-for-the-development-of-the-negev-and-galilee</category><category>national-water-carrier</category><category>yarmouk-river</category><category>kasr-al-yehud</category><category>emek-hamaayanot</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=HippocratesofCosC92D96C3-009C-2C3D-70F6-694F7864C711.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="274" width="274" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=HippocratesofCosC92D96C3-009C-2C3D-70F6-694F7864C711.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title> 'Amman will purchase 10 million cubic meters of Israeli water.' By Sharon Udasin. 06/07/2011 04:13 </title>
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Jordan is expected to buy 10 million cubic meters of additional water from  Israel&rsquo;s Lake Kinneret supply this summer due to water shortages in the Jordan  Valley, Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm reported an unidentified Jordanian  Water Ministry official as saying in &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry H-189743]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Larry H-189743]]></source><link>http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/06/6800958-amman-will-purchase-10-million-cubic-meters-of-israeli-water-by-sharon-udasin-06072011-0413</link><guid>http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/06/6800958-amman-will-purchase-10-million-cubic-meters-of-israeli-water-by-sharon-udasin-06072011-0413</guid><category>israel</category><category>jordan</category><category>world-news</category><category>amman</category><category>jordan-valley</category><category>lake-kinneret</category><category>friends-of-the-earth-middle-east</category><category>lake-water</category><category>israeli-jordanian-peace-agreement</category><category>dr-hazem-al-nasser</category><category>gidon-bromberg</category><category>israel-water-authority</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:54:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shaking Hands not Fists in the  Middle East</title>
<description><![CDATA[Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians build peace while addressing a looming water crisis.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[janepoynter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[janepoynter]]></source><link>http://janepoynter.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/11/775475-shaking-hands-not-fists-in-the-middle-east</link><guid>http://janepoynter.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/11/775475-shaking-hands-not-fists-in-the-middle-east</guid><category>israel</category><category>jordan</category><category>west-bank</category><category>world-news</category><category>water-shortage</category><category>palistinians</category><category>water-treatment</category><category>friends-of-the-earth-middle-east</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>