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Through the Good Water Neighbors Project, FoEME has succeeded in  partnering neighboring communities and their representatives – thus building an alliance promoting sustainable development.  To this aim, two important Memorandums of Understandings were endorsed by Israeli and Jordanian Mayors in the last month.

On January 10th, 2007 a MoU was signed by Eng. Abdullah Salman, Mayor of Mu’az Bin Jabal Municipality in Jordan, and Israeli Mayors of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, Mr. Yossi Vardi and Beit She’an Valley Regional Council, Mr. Dani Tamari.  The historic MoU recognized the value and importance of rehabilitating the Jordan River and identified the potential for advancing peace through creating a cross border park, based on ecological values and cultural heritage, at the Rotenburg/ Naharayim/ Gesher site.  Press coverage from Ma'ariv and Haaretz can be found at:

https://www.foeme.org/www/?module=projects&record_id=200.

On January 17th, 2007 a MoU was signed between the Mayor of the  Tamar Regional Council in Israel, Mr. Dov Litvinoff and the Governor of South Ghores in Jordan, Mr. Ghaleb Al-Shamayleh.  The MoU asserts the importance of cooperation in resolving the infestation of flies in the area, the need for an additional border crossing in the Al-Safi and Neot Hakikar area and promoting sustainable development in the Southern Dead Sea Basin.  For press coverage of the event from The Middle East Times, Haaretz, and Al Bawaba please visit: https://www.foeme.org/www/?module=projects&record_id=29.

In addition to the press coverage linked above, these groundbreaking meetings were discussed widely in local, regional and international newspapers and radio programs including: Al Dustur, the leading Arabic-language newspaper in Jordan, Radio Amman Net, Maariv, Reshet Bet (Radio Station B), Kol Israel (Voice of Israel), Walla!, and YNet.  Furthermore, the GWN project was highlighted in a special documentary on water and peace in the region produced by French television in cooperation with the renowned French photographer Mr. Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Next week, FoEME's Good Water Neighbors project will convene a gathering of Mayors and municipal leaders from the 17 Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli communities in Jordan. A hundred participants from the respective communities and the international community are expected to participate in this important event.  During the program, municipal representatives will present draft proposals for cross border projects based on common solutions to shared environmental problems and or sustainable development initiatives developed through the GWN project. 

The Good Water Neighbors Project is jointly funded by the European Union Partnership for Peace Program, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, and the British Government's Global Opportunities Fund.

Jordan River:  FoEME's work to rehabilitate the Jordan River received important local and international media attention throughout the month, including special coverage by CNN on January 18^th, Baptism Day, highlighting the extensive pollution of the Jordan River's waters and the extremely limited access to the Kaser el Yehud baptism site. 

Mountain Aquifer: FoEME launched a new project this month aiming to protect shared Israeli-Palestinian groundwater resources from pollution. This project, funded by the European Commission LIFE 3^rd countries program, Green Cross International and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies will address local municipalities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority with the aim of assisting them to confront groundwater pollution within their jurisdiction. FoEME has partnered with the Palestinian NGO House of Water and Environment for the project.  The first meeting of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Steering Committee was held on January 23^rd in Jerusalem.