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Sep. 10, 2002
By DAVID RUDGE
Israel will not accept Lebanese plans to draw additional water from the Wazzani River, which ultimately flows into Lake Kinneret, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday.
Israel Radio said the government had relayed its concern to Lebanon along with calls to stop the project.
According to reports in the Lebanese press, work on laying 16-inch diameter pipes to be used to convey water from the Wazzani, a tributary of the Hatzbani, to towns and villages in south Lebanon has been completed.
The next stage of the project is slated to involve the construction of an enlarged pumping station and a reservoir from where the water will be channelled into the pipeline.
The entire project, being carried out by the Council of the South which is affiliated with Amal and its leader, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Beri, is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
So far the Lebanese government has rejected Israel's warnings and international pressure to stop the project which Sharon was quoted as saying was in breach of previous water treaties, including unwritten accords.
There are no accurate assessments of how much the Lebanese pumping project would drain from the Hatzbani and ultimately the Kinneret, although some estimates have put the amount as high as 50 million cubic meters a year.
This is the equivalent of the quantity Israel intends to import from Turkey each year, as well as the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination unit.
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