Jordan River may stop flowing, group warns
THE Jordan River in Israel may cease flowing in coming months, according to a warning by an international environmental group.
NEW YORK — An environmental group has warned that the Jordan River may cease flowing in coming months.
Officials of Friends of the Earth have measured the flow of the Jordan to be as shallow as 30 centimetres in some of its southern parts and fear that it might dry up altogether in a few months.
Years of drought and overuse for irrigation have reduced the flow of the once mighty river to a trickle.
“The state of the Jordan is indeed a catastrophe,” said Gidon Bromberg, the group’s Middle East director. “There are places where you struggle to see a river.”
JTA
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