A Last Ditch Effort to Save the Jordan River
by Mr. Rami Abdelrahman, Programme Officer, and Dr. Anders Jägerskog, Director, Knowledge Services, SIWI
Arguably one of the most endangered rivers on the planet, the river Jordan has been shrinking since one of the oldest continuously inhabited human cities, Jericho, was established on its West Bank. In biblical stories, the Israelites crossed the Jordan “against Jericho,” suggesting that the River was so wide, it reached Jericho. The exact geographical accuracy of this story cannot be defined, but today Jericho stands 10 kilometres away from the River’s West Bank.