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Though they were supposed to be only an interim agreement with final status negotiations to be discussed within five years, and though many portions of that agreement have been ignored, the Oslo Agreements have had a lasting effect on recent and current water management in Israel and Palestine, in some cases to their benefit, in others as obstacles. After reviewing the current informal acceptance of Oslo, the chapter goes on to review two of the singular aspects of regional water management: the introduction of large-scale desalination plants in Israel; and the singularly difficult water situation in the Gaza Strip.
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http://ecopeaceme.org/ecopeace-in-the-news/media-releases/may-16-2017-israel-state-comptroller-report-state-transboundary-water-issues-israel-palestinian-territories/. The full report is available from the website of the State of Israel Comptroller, but only in Hebrew. Informal translations into English of selected portions of the report are available from www.ecopeace.org.
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A summarized version of this report was published jointly by INSS and EcoPeace and is available as Bromberg et al. (2018).
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This comment appears in Israel Policy Forum for 18 July 2019 under the heading, “There’s something happening; however, what it is ain’t exactly clear.”.
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Brooks, D.B., Trottier, J., Giordano, G. (2020). The Existing Oslo Arrangements. In: Transboundary Water Issues in Israel, Palestine, and the Jordan River Basin. SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0252-1_3
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