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They pledged their fortunes, honor and lives to prevent Israel's using the water of the Jordan to irrigate the Negev desert. Yet last week Israel's $150 million diversion project was routinely at work, and the Arab states' counterprojects, intended to cut off the head waters of the Jordan, had not even begun building...
...sucked in the sweet water that flows into the sea from the Jordan River, pushed it through nine-foot conduits up an 845-ft. incline to the top of the Galilee Hills, then sent it coursing down an open spillway toward the central plains of Israel and the parched Negev Desert in the south. Thus last week Israel successfully completed the first full-scale test tapping in its critical and controversial Jordan waters project...
...equivalent of Christ's miracle of multiplication. Eventually, 85 billion gallons of water a year will flow through Israel's 154-mile network of pipelines, channels, siphons and tunnels. It will replenish the overexploited water table of the citrus-growing central plains, slake the thirst of existing Negev settlements, and provide enough water to sustain some 15,000 new families in the desert. But, momentous as the plan may be to Israel's future, the government last week went to great pains to play it down. In the nation's biggest newspaper, the afternoon tabloid Maariv...
...kings, princes, sheikhs, presidents and dictators of twelve other Arab nations poured into Cairo in answer to Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser's call for unified action against Israel's intention this spring to divert the waters of the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev desert. Declared Israel's Labor Minister: "We will pump water even under gunfire, and we will defend ourselves against any attack...
Concentrating Rain. Most of the Negev gets less than 6 in. of rain per year, and it usually comes in winter in short, sudden downpours. It does not sink into the hard ground; it pours into the dry wadies, sometimes foaming all the way to the Mediterranean. The best way to make practical use of this sort of rainfall is to concentrate the water as much as possible where it will do the most good-which is exactly what the Naba-taeans did in the Negev. The more Glueck studied their works, the more he admired their industry and engineering...