MEDA Water Programme: EU Helps Palestinians to cope with water scarcity problem. Yet, more needs to be done

The MEDA Water Programme is highlighted through the new Feature Story and Project Highlight on the EuroMed Info Centre’s website, in view of the Ministerial Conference on Water taking place in Jordan on October 29.

The text and photographs for the feature story “EU Helps Palestinians to cope with water scarcity problem. Yet, more needs to be done..” are by local journalist Elias Zananiri. The photos are also available on-line.

To read the feature story, click here.

The new Project Highlight on our website, from EuropeAid’s Info Notes, is the MEDA Water Programme that got underway in 2003 and ends in 2008. This €40 million (MEDA) Programme reinforces regional cooperation and develops proposals on water management, through capacity strengthening, training, information and know-how exchanges.

To read the project highlight, click here.

Water Ministerial Conference – press release and website

Info Notes: An overview of projects funded by EuropeAid’s Regional Programme (Euro-Med Partnership)

Now available in three languages, on-line:

English French Arabic

EU Helps Palestinians to cope with water scarcity problem. Yet, more needs to be done

Friday, 24 October 2008

Water shortage is a crucial problemof biggest concern for Palestinians.Oneway to deal with this crisis is adequate treatment of wastewater that would limit the deterioration of existing freshwater resources. Different partners from across the borders of Middle Eastern countries, including Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, aimto exchange experience and come upwith innovative solutions. Each of them comes up with what seems to be more compatible to conditions in their respective countries.

Text and Photographs by Elias Zananiri

To read the story click here

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Contact information	Gert Soer, RMSU MEDA Water (email: gsoer@medawater-rmsu.org)
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.euromedinfo.eu/site.0.successstory.en.53.html
File link local	medawater_EN.pdf (PDF, 1541 Kb)
Source of information	EuroMed Info Centre
Keyword(s)	EU-MEDA-Water, water scarcity
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER DEMAND
Relation	http://www.semide.net/initiatives/medaeau
Geographical coverage	Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Spain, Morocco, Cyprus
News date	24/10/2008
Working language(s)	ARABIC , ENGLISH , FRENCH

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