Word: litanies
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...duty about its water supply in the next 30 years, Egypt could raise its food output 30%, Syria 143%, Iraq 183%. Lebanon 37%. One difficulty is that in the vast dry-land area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, only one of six major rivers-Lebanon's Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store and use the 44 billion cubic feet of water that the Jordan River pours annually into the Dead Sea, for example, would require an agreement between Israel, Syria and Jordan. On the Jordan, a solution to the thousand-year water...
...Lake Tiberias, said the Arabs, keep the water behind two dams on the all-Arab Yarmuk. (They also wanted to cut Israel's share of Jordan water from one-third to one-fifth.) The Israelis proposed to double the amount of available water by piping Lebanon's Litani River (which skirts Israel) into the scheme, and give all the increase to Israel to irrigate the Negeb...