November 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Jordan and Israel have signed this Thursday, on the sidelines of the United Nations climate summit (COP27) held in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh, an agreement to rehabilitate the water of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea.
According to the Petra news agency, the text has been signed between the Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation, Muhamed Najjar, and the Israeli Minister of the Environment, Tamar Zanderberg, with the aim of improving the water of the Jordan River, which has decreased by seven percent, thus causing the level of the Dead Sea to have fallen by almost one meter annually.
The agreement between the parties seeks to create jobs, as well as increase the supply of water and water resources to people living on both sides of the river, including Palestinians, according to the aforementioned news agency.
Likewise, the two countries will work to eliminate the sources of contamination in their respective territories with the construction of wastewater treatment plants. In addition, the communities that live along the river will be connected to advanced sewage infrastructure, according to the newspaper ‘The Jerusalem Post’.
Israel and Jordan already signed another agreement in October to double the amount of water that would reach Jordanian territory from the neighboring country, in a sample of the “good neighborly relations” that both want to maintain since the signing of the peace treaty in 1994.
