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Yarmuk dam would severely reduce flow into the Jordan
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DAVID RUDGE
Jerusalem Post
08-23-1996
THE construction of a dam on the upper reaches of the Yarmuk River on the Jordan-Syria border would reduce the flow in the lower section to a bare trickle, according to Technion Prof. Dan Zaslavsky, a former water commissioner.
He noted that under the Johnston Accord of the early 1950s, which was accepted and upheld by Jordan and Israel even though they never signed it, the Yarmuk waters flow directly into the Jordan River, south of the Kinneret, and are shared by Jordan and Israel.
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