AMMAN Under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan, president of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, a panel discussion titled “Tackling the Great Rift Valley: Resilience in the Region by Linking Environment, Food, Energy and Water Systems” was held on Thursday.Ambassadors, experts and those concerned with energy, water and food issues attended the event. The panel
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Jordan is facing an existential challenge and it has nothing to do with the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the war in neighboring Syria, or the threat of militant Islamists. The challenge is climate change, which is responsible for poor rainy seasons over the past few years. The situation has become so bad that in the past few weeks the government admitted that six of the kingdom’s 14 active dams have now completely dried up, exacerbating endemic shortages of water used for drinking, irrigation, and industry.
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