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bicusa.org/ Problem Project Red Sea - Dead Sea Water Conduit Project BIC is no longer actively working on this project. Overview Concerns Updates Resources Contacts RSS Update \| 28 August 2009 Where is the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Program going? After meeting with World Bank President, Robert Zoellick, Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister of Regional Development, Silvan Shalom, stated that the World Bank had agreed to fund the Red-Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Program that involves Jordan, Palestine and Israel. However, Bank officials say that they have made no promises and that the project is still in the feasibility study phase. Read more Press Clipping \| 29 June 2009 World Bank to aid Dead Sea Canal project Joint Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian venture to see 112-mile pipeline built between Read Sea, Dead Sea. Project meant to explore desalination possibilities, raising Dead Sea declining water levels. Minister Shalom: Project staple of financial peace Read more Press Clipping \| 29 May 2009 Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank Palestinians losing out in access to vital shared aquifer in the occupied territories Read more Press Clipping \| 19 March 2009 The Red Sea might save the Dead Sea The World Bank continues to commission feasibility studies for the proposed Red/Dead Sea Canal, but environmental and political issues remain major issues. Read more Update \| 18 June 2008 Questions remain unanswered surrounding the Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal as feasibility study begins The World Bank’s support for the $15.5 million feasibility studies continues to raise questions about the Bank’s application of its operational safeguard policies on the project. Read more Update \| 26 September 2007 World Bank feasibility study on Dead Sea Canal overlooks alternatives Civil society in the Middle East demands that the Bank give full consideration to viable alternatives to the costly project. Read more Print this page Email this page

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