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| Titel |
Raising the Dead without a Red Sea-Dead Sea project? Hydro-economics and governance |
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D. E. Rosenberg |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 15, no. 4 ; Nr. 15, no. 4 (2011-04-20), S.1243-1255 |
| Datensatznummer |
250012749
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-15-1243-2011.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Seven decades of extractions have dramatically reduced Jordan River flows,
lowered the Dead Sea level, opened sink holes, and caused other
environmental problems. The fix Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinians propose
would build an expensive multipurpose conveyance project from the Red Sea to
the Dead Sea that would also generate hydropower and desalinate water. This
paper compares the Red-Dead project to alternatives that may also raise the
Dead Sea level. Hydro-economic model results for the
Jordan-Israel-Palestinian inter-tied water systems show two restoration
alternatives are more economically viable than the proposed Red-Dead
project. Many decentralized new supply, wastewater reuse, conveyance,
conservation, and leak reduction projects and programs in each country can
together increase economic benefits and reliably deliver up to 900 MCM yr−1
to the Dead Sea. Similarly, a smaller Red-Dead project that only generates
hydropower can deliver large flows to the Dead Sea when the sale price of
generated electricity is sufficiently high. However, for all restoration
options, net benefits fall and water scarcity rises as flows to the Dead Sea
increase. This finding suggests (i) each country has no individual incentive
to return water to the Dead Sea, and (ii) outside institutions that seek to
raise the Dead must also offer countries direct incentives to deliver water
to the Sea besides building the countries new infrastructure. |
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