Hydro-‐political Baseline of the Upper Jordan River - Ibrahim Abd El Al

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Mediterranean Sea Metulla Hasbani Basin Ajou n St ream ISRAEL ISRAEL Ajoun catchment area El Wazzani Ghajar LEBANON Lake Tiberias Basin LEBANON Lidd an River JORDAN Hasbani River SYRIA Hasbaya Cheba’a Farms Banias Banias R i v er el Asl Stream Occupied SYRIAN GOLAN Based on Rimmer and Salingar (2006). Data for basins, rivers and boundaries (except occupied Golan): Hartman 2008. Mt Hermon Banias Basin Liddan Basin UNDOF Administered Zone SYRIA Mapping: Doris Summer Beirut, 2011 Figure 3.1 The Upper Jordan River catchment areas – composed of the Hasbani, Liddan, and Banias. Adapted from Rimmer and Salingar (2006). 10 km 38
Mediterranean Sea Dardana Spring A jou n Str ea m ISRAEL ISRAEL Wazzani Spring LEBANON Lake Tiberias Golan Heights Liddan Spring Lidda n Elevation in m Ha sbani River River 2400 and above JORDAN SYRIA LEBANON Bania s Hasbani Springs el Ch e ba’ani Str. River el Asl Stream Banias Spring 2100 - 2399 1800 - 2099 Figure 3.2 Upper Jordan River surface water and topography. Adapted from Rimmer and Salingar (2006). Sa’ar Occupied SYRIAN GOLAN 10 km 1500 - 1799 1200 - 1499 900 - 1199 600 - 899 Sabarini Spring Beit Jinn Spring UNDOF Administered Zone Mt Hermon 300 - 599 below 299 Based on Rimmer and Salingar, 2006; Basins, rivers and boundaries (except occupied Golan): Hartman (2008). Topographic data: Jarvis, Reuter, Nelson, and Guevara (2008). Mapping: Doris Summer Beirut, 2011 SYRIA 39
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 5 and 6: 8 THE HYDROPOLITICAL BASELINE 126 8
Page 7 and 8: Tables Table 2.1. Estimates of surf
Page 9 and 10: Preface This study could not have b
Page 11 and 12: control of the flows was assured fo
Page 13 and 14: MILITARY/ POLITICAL EVENTS 1916 192
Page 15 and 16: Springs in 2002, the prominence of
Page 17 and 18: 6, Lebanese narratives in support o
Page 19 and 20: 2. Snapshot of the Upper Jordan 2.1
Page 21 and 22: Wazzani Springs Hasbani River Huleh
Page 23 and 24: The religious significance of Bania
Page 25 and 26: Each shift in borders has resulted
Page 27 and 28: The border created by the French-
Page 29 and 30: Hydro-‐hegemony in Upper Jordan
Page 31 and 32: Figure 2.7 Institutional arrangemen
Page 33 and 34: master plans, and continues to take
Page 35 and 36: Water Production Water Allocation T
Page 37: (Hartman 2008). The north-‐west
Page 41 and 42: and placed just downstream of the s
Page 43 and 44: Hasbani Liddan Banias Figure 3.5 Da
Page 45 and 46: Hasbani Liddan Banias Figure 3.6 An
Page 47 and 48: The aquifer is composed primarily o
Page 49 and 50: 25 km wide. It is the highest mount
Page 51 and 52: Hasbani, and that the Litani cannot
Page 53 and 54: 3.5 Water abstractions 3.5.1 Water
Page 55 and 56: Groundwater abstractions within the
Page 57 and 58: PART B. ANALYSIS 4. Hydropolitical
Page 59 and 60: The Ottoman authorities also made a
Page 61 and 62: • to agree to construction works
Page 63 and 64: Figure 4.3 Hiorth’s suggested pla
Page 65 and 66: Figure 4.4 Israeli Water “Project
Page 67 and 68: The break-‐down of the talks me
Page 69 and 70: The 1967 territorial conquest marke
Page 71 and 72: In any case, the debilitation of th
Page 73 and 74: Considered alongside the significan
Page 75 and 76: Zeitoun (2007: Fig 4.5) shows how a
Page 77 and 78: The representatives of the European
Page 79 and 80: 4.5.3 Ghajar “Many people are foc
Page 81 and 82: 5. Wars and Water This section appl
Page 83 and 84: The very extensive damages to water
Page 85 and 86: 5.4 Water and War in Lebanon during
Page 87 and 88: Item Area Comments Water Reservoirs
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The total cost of damages to water
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Figure 5.2 Water reservoirs in Leba
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those water pumping stations” (Mu
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Assi River, 43 where an estimated 3
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6. Upper Jordan Narratives and Disc
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6.1.2 IWL Narrative: International
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agreement is essential in order tha
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the Jordan and all its tributaries
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High-‐level state interests ris
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either the lingering effects of lon
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7. The Struggle for Control of the
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As such, links between control over
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Figure 7.3 Relative control over su
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MILITARY/ POLITICAL EVENTS 1916 Zio
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een planned since the days of Ibrah
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“Consequently, water disputes mus
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1948 - 1967: no hegemon (control co
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The extensive damages to water infr
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8. The Hydropolitical Baseline The
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8.2 Interests and Power in the Uppe
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Springs are located just inside the
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Water resources and water infrastru
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River flows may come to more closel
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conflicts between the political ent
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Brielmann, Heike (2008) Recharge an
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FNA (1922) Concession du Houle. Fre
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Jarvis, Todd, Mark Giordano, Shammy
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Nembrini, Pier Giorgio (2002a) Kabu
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Wolf, Aaron T. (1995) Hydropolitics
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