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To: Elroy who wrote (247115)	11/1/2007 3:45:46 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

water rights are not often talked about.......yet they are a vital part of any settlement. Warter is scarse in israel..... Most water is piped in from the West Bank aquafer......... Water is perhaps the most stratigicly important reasorse of the area........ "In 1964, Israel began withdrawing water from the Jordan River for its National Water Carrier. The following year, the Arab states began construction of the Headwater Diversion Plan, which, once completed, would divert the waters of the Banias Stream before the water entered Israel and the Sea of Galilee, to flow instead into a dam at Mukhaiba for use by Jordan and Syria, and divert the waters of the Hasbani into the Litani River, in Lebanon. The diversion works would have reduced the installed capacity of Israel's carrier by about 35%, and Israel's overall water supply by about 11%.[7] The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the diversion works in Syria in March, May, and August of 1965, perpetuating a prolonged chain of border violence that linked directly to the events leading to war.[8]".........http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War ........and it would seem that the gaza aquafer has been over pumped and can not support an increase in population and usage.