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The Jordan's Troubled Waters
Ellis, William S. | February 11, 1961 issue

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The article reports that Israel has launched a project to divert the water of the river Jordan, and make its southern wasteland inhabitable. The Arab League, incensed at the possibility of an irrigated Negev, which could provide living space for as many as two million additional Jewish immigrants, has gone on record as vowing to stop the diversion, by shooting if necessary. The River Jordan rises in the foot-hills of Lebanon and Syria and ends its flow in earth's brilliantly blue and salty basement, the Dead Sea.

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WATER diversion; WASTE lands; IRRIGATION; IMMIGRANTS; JORDAN River; ISRAEL
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