Seth Freedman: Can a new project answer Palestinian's water needs?

Water is a scarce commodity in the Middle East, especially this summer, although you wouldn't know it in my neighbourhood. The park next to my house is liberally soaked with gallons of water every day; the municipality bending over backwards to satisfy the demands of Jerusalem's nouveau riche elite. Despite the ever-shrinking reserves in the Kinneret, to walk round the German Colony it looks as though the country enjoys as much rainfall as the Amazon. For the Palestinians, however, the grass really is always greener on the other side of the separation wall. In the barren hills around Bethlehem, the earth lies arid and parched, and the sequestering of the Palestinians' water reserves by the Israeli authorities means that there's little chance of quenching the land's thirst. Into the void have stepped four British... [read full story]