News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Till the Last Drop: The Palestinian Water Crisis in
the West Bank, Hydrogeology and Hydropolitics of a Regional Conflict
On June 12th
2007, at the Daila center in West Jerusalem, Clemens Messerschmid, presented
the first of a two-part lecture series sponsored by the Alternative Information
Center, titled "Till
the Last Drop: The Palestinian Water Crisis in the West Bank, Hydrogeology and
Hydropolitics of a Regional Conflict." Mr. Messerschmid is a German
hydrogeologist who has worked for many years on international water projects in
the West Bank.
He introduced the physical settings of water resources in the region and their
extremely asymmetrical allocation between the Palestinians and Israelis.
In addition, he gave an introduction to the hydrogeology of the shared aquifers
and an overview of the historical development of their utilization, focusing on
the years of overt occupation between the 1967 War and The Oslo Interim
Agreement of September 1995.
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