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2012-2015 Regional NGO Master Plan [SWIM-JR]

Water and Environmental Development Organization/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), together with consortium partners, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and Global Nature Fund (GNF) came together in 2012 to launch the SWIM-JR Project to produce the "FoEME Master Plan: A Vision for the Lower Jordan River", the first ever trans-boundary integrated master plan for the Jordan River.

 

Unique in its natural and cultural wealth, the Jordan River is presently threatened by excessive water diversion, pollution and inappropriate development. Of the 1.3 billion cubic meters of water that would naturally flow down the River Jordan to the Dead Sea each year, 98% is diverted for domestic and agricultural uses. A regional integrated approach to water management issues in the Lower Jordan River Valley is desperately need to repair and restore the once "mighty" river.

 

– A comprehensive master planning programme to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and its tributaries.

– Determine coordinated regional flow regimes, set water quality standards, identify solutions to treat all pollution sources, launch restoration and preservation programs, establish ecological corridors, and identify opportunities to expand ecotourism infrastructures in the Jordan Valley including the preparation of regional heritage routes.

–  The Israeli government has launched a process to prepare a master plan for the Israeli section of the Lower Jordan River. See details below.

– The FoEME Master Plan will develop complementary plans for the Palestinian and Jordanian sections of the Lower Jordan to produce the first ever comprehensive regional master plan for the Lower Jordan.

 

To read the Regional NGO Master Plan for the Lower Jordan River Valley’s detailed Inception Report released in January 2013 by Royal HaskoningDHV (RHDHV) in partnership with CORE Associates (Palestine), MASAR (Jordan) and DHVMED (Israel) on behalf of FoEME and its partners please visit our Jordan River publications page.

 

For an overview presentation about the Regional NGO Master Plan project please click here.

The Kinneret Drainage Authority has completed a master plan for the section of the Lower Jordan River from the Kinneret/ Sea of Galilee to Nahayrim. For more information on this plan please see this detailed presentation

 

Currently the Israeli Lower Jordan River Drainage Authority is undertaking the development of a master plan of a streach of the Lower Jordan River from Naharyim to Bezeq Stream. This plan will be aligned with a separate Israeli Master Plan already completed from Degania Dam (where the Lower Jordan exits the Sea of Galilee) to Naharyim.

 

Further details about the Israeli master planning process currently under way is available (in Hebrew) on the Israeli Lower Jordan River Drainage Authorities website including a detailed presentation on the work plan and the summary of a public meeting held on April 30, 2012.

 

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The SWIM-JR master plan project is supported by the

European Union’s Sustainable Water Integrated Management (SWIM) Programme.

 

Click here for a video produced by the EU on the overall SWIM programme

(FoEME’s NGO Master Plan project is featured in minute 08:33)

Click here for the Arabic version of the video