Why water shouldn't flow uphill
By Mark Zeitoun - 19.03.2008 / 00:00 CET
Just as the Israeli and Palestinian sides are about to negotiate on water, a report by the chairman of the EU informal task force on water has endorsed the most illogical of “solutions”.
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A Palestinian boy drinks water from a water pipe line in the southern Gaza Strip./REUTERS
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