Israel-Jordanian partnership plans to drill a "channel of Bahrain"

Israel-Jordanian partnership plans to drill a "channel of Bahrain"

According to Alalam.ir Website : The newspaper "The Marker" of Israel on Sunday, said the project would have positive economic benefits after the feasibility study prepared by the World Bank and will be published soonThis comes despite the warnings of the danger posed by this project on EgyptThe project aims to pump millions of cubic meters of water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea and the establishment of desalination plants to provide drinking water to the residents of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, a project that World Bank has prepared a feasibility study around him in the past two years and ended up including the recentlyThe cost of the project between 10 to $ 15 billion the World Bank will payNot only the fears of the expected impacts of the project on the Egyptian sideThe environmental groups have warned Israel that will cause earthquakes and the destruction of the ecosystem in the region, has called on the Israeli Benitsan Horowitz demands on his government to stop further implementation and the search for alternativesAs he emphasized Eli Raz expert environment, an Israeli, the World Bank study took place over a short period, warning that the massive injection from the edge of the Gulf of Aqaba narrow may alter the ecosystem in the region, pointing out that the route of the pipeline on the canal passes through a region of seismic activity and represents a threat soil and contaminate groundwaterFor his part, Israeli Minister Silvan Shalom said that "cooperation between Israel and its neighbors is a reality in several areas, including economy, environment, tourism and security."He said that "economic cooperation with our neighbors is not a luxury but a necessity for the future of the regional whole, we share the same geographical environment and cooperation is the need for realistic and we are obliged to achieve the interest of our residents and our neighbors," he saidThe newspaper said the Israeli "The Marker", the Ministry of Regional Cooperation during the meetings of the Committee to make recommendations on tourism cooperation between the Israeli city of Eilat and Egypt and Jordan, noting that the goal is to increase the number of tourists coming to Eilat via the exploitation of tourists to the Sinai Peninsula and the city of Aqaba, Jordan ...
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