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With Israeli troops pushing into the Gaza Strip, it’s hard to envision peace between Israelis and Palestinians in the near term. But there are areas where cooperation has been possible in the past, and might be so again. One of them is a looming challenge across the Middle East: water.
Environmental scholars Clive Lipchin and Richard Friend explain how Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have worked together at the Arava Institute in southern Israel to develop technologies and strategies for providing water and sanitation to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. As they see it, working together on shared water challenges “is the only future that is possible for the intertwined reality of Israelis and Palestinians.”
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Palestinians fill drinking water containers at a distribution site in Khan Yunis, south Gaza, on Oct. 8, 2023.
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Clive Lipchin, Tel Aviv University; Richard Friend, University of York
As the war between Hamas and Israel grinds forward, two experts explain how Israelis and Palestinians have cooperated to tackle their region’s water challenges.
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Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles
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Omer Bartov, Brown University
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Ethics + Religion
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Mathew Sandoval, Arizona State University
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Christine Shepardson, University of Tennessee
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Education
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Rob Wells, University of Maryland
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Science + Technology
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