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	Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The northernmost part of the Rift forms the valley of the Jordan River, which flows southward through the Hula Lake and the Sea of Galilee in Israel to the Dead Sea.
		The Gulf of Aden is an eastward continuation of the rift - before the rift opened, the Arabian Peninsula was attached to the Horn of Africa - and from this point the rift continues as part of the Mid-oceanic ridge of the Indian Ocean.
		In Kenya the valley is deepest to the north of Nairobi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Rift_Valley (784 words)

	Rift Valley Fever Facts
		Rift Valley fever is a fever-causing viral disease that affects livestock and humans in Africa.
		Rift valley fever is a fever-causing disease that affects livestock (including cattle, buffalo, sheep, and goats) and humans in Africa.
		The disease is caused by the Rift Valley fever virus.
	www.astdhpphe.org /infect/rift.html (834 words)

	The Jordan Rift Valley
		The JRV has been designated as a special development area and, as a result of a tri-lateral initiative between the United States, Jordan and Israel, the JRV Steering Committee was formed to develop a master plan for the integrated economic development of the JRV subregion.
		Development of the JRV as a crossroads between east and east was repressed in the era prior to the Peace Agreement.
		The Jordan River Valley flows from the Yarmouk confluence south to the Dead Sea, comprising the lower Beit She'an and Yarmouk valleys and the Zor, Aqatar and Ghor subdivisions in the lower Jordan Valley.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/rift.html (2128 words)

	Overview of Middle East Water Resources
		On the western side of the Jordan Rift Valley, an average of approximately 30 percent (%) of the total precipitation that falls on the region is usable: 70% is lost through evapotranspiration, 5% is runoff, leaving 25% to recharge groundwater.
		The Jordan River watershed is in the Mountain Belt, Jordan Rift Valley and Escarpments, and the Jordan Highland and Plateau.
		The watersheds are in the Negev, the Jordan Highland and Plateau, the Jordan Rift Valley and Eastern Escarpment, and the South Jordan Desert.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/water2.html (6017 words)

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		The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is bordered by Syria in the north, Iraq in the northeast, Saudi Arabia in the east and south, and Israel and the West Bank in the west.
		Jordan is situated at the junction of three phyto-geographical regions, the Irano-turanian, Afro-subtropical and Mediterranean, and acts as a faunal and floral bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.
		Noteworthy fauna: The Jordan Valley lies on a major bird migration route, and the wetlands are of considerable importance as breeding, staging and wintering areas for waterbirds.
	www.arabfishing.com /wetlands/details/jordan.doc (14616 words)

	Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This same valley south of the Dead Sea is referred to as the Wadi Arabah, which due to climatic variation is quite different from the northern Jordan Valley.
		The entire water system of the rift valley in Jordan is fed by large wadis or seasonal river courses from both the eastern and western plateau's, which in the winter contribute substantial amounts of water and provide sufficient irrigation for intensive farming.
		The Edomites ruled southern Jordan; the Moabites settled in the centre of the country; and the Amorites had their capital at Hisban, south of Amman; the Ammonites controlled the area around Amman; and the Kingdom of Gilead reigned in the northern region around the Zerqa River.
	www.ancientroute.com /HeadrFtr/tJordan.htm (1938 words)

	INCD Regional Action Program
		The sub- region surveyed in the Joint Study is the southern section of the Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from Jericho in the north (administered by the Palestinian Authority) to the towns of Aqaba (Jordan) and Elat (Israel) at the north coast of the Gulf of Aqaba (Elat).
		Sandy soils, however, are not common in the Rift Valley, and their use for agriculture competes with the conservation of the unique biodiversity typical to this rather rare habitat in the Valley.
		In Jordan and in the Jericho region, the land is used by pastoralists raising sheep, goats and camels.
	www.bgu.ac.il /BIDR/MEPP/Subrap2.htm (3571 words)

	Pages 6-7. Physical Geography
		Jordan Rift Valley — This dominant physiographic and geologic feature is a 375-kilometer (km) long strike-slip fault zone that affects the climate, hydrology, and anthropogenic activities of the region.
		Western and Eastern Escarpments of the Jordan Rift Valley — Formed as the Jordan Rift Valley deepened, causing abrupt valley walls and deeply incised wadis across the escarpments.
		Jordan Highland and Plateau — Jordan Highland consists mainly of deeply-incised Cretaceous sedimentary rocks that rise to elevations of as much as 1,200 m.
	exact-me.org /overview/p0607.htm (513 words)

	Jordan - Geography and Environment - Jordan’s Water Shortage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jordan is also entitled to build a series of dams on the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers to impound its share of flood waters.
		Likewise, Jordan is currently involved in discussions with Syria pertaining to issues on the upper catchment of the Yarmouk River in an attempt to reach an understanding over stable water sharing and flood storage between the two countries.
		Jordan has long been a strong advocate of transforming the zero-sum game in water sharing, where there are winners and losers, into a positive-sum game where all the concerned parties will be winners.
	www.kinghussein.gov.jo /geo_env4.html (1551 words)

	Dead Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Within the valley, the scenery is desolation, with dry nooks and crannies everywhere, with plenty of places to hide but nowhere to live.
		Strewn along the northern shore, especially near the mouth of the Jordan, lie large quantities of drift wood, brought down by the swollen river, and it is everywhere encrusted with salt crystals.
		Apart from the Jordan, rivers enter the Dead Sea only from the east, by narrow, impassable gorges, but along the western shore there is a line of springs, which were of great importance in ancient times.
	www.ancientroute.com /HeadrFtr/fdeadsea.htm (2105 words)

	Jordan River : River Jordan
		The Jordan River is a river in western Asia flowing through the Jordan Rift Valley into the Dead Sea.
		South of the lake, it forms the border between the kingdom of Jordan (to the east) and Israel (to the west).
		The Jordan River is also a river that runs from Utah Lake north into the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
	www.termsdefined.net /ri/river-jordan.html (320 words)

	The Great Rift and the Jordan
		The story of the violent changes that occurred in the Jordan Valley, the memory of which is connected with the time of the patriarchs and in which Sodom and Gomorrah were overturned, does not mention that the Valley of Sittim, where the cities were located, became an inner sea.
		The deepest place in the Rift on land is the valley of the Jordan and the Dead Sea.
		The opening of the Great Rift, or its further expansion, accompanied by the overturning of the plain and the origin of the Dead Sea, was a catastrophe that ended an era.
	www.varchive.org /itb/rift.htm (1221 words)

	Technological and management alternatives for the future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jordan has also been carrying out a systematic groundwater evaluation project in recent years, with the help of the United States Agency for International Development and the US Geological Survey (Starr and Stoll, 1988, p.
		Jordan is absorbing 300,000 Palestinians who left Kuwait in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
		Jordan would need an additional supply of 17.5 MCM/yr for its refugees, and the West Bank would need an additional 25 MCM/yr (a 23 per cent increase in its water budget) to provide for the personal water needs of 1 million immigrants.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu18ce/uu18ce0b.htm (4545 words)

	Jordan
		Jordan is located between 29° and 33° north and 36° and 39° east.
		Nematode problems are pronounced in the Jordan Rift Valley, resulting from the prevalence of a favourable subtropical climate with a long growing season and irrigated conditions.
		Cooperation with institutions outside Jordan includes: full participation in, and membership of the International Meloidogyne Project, which was managed by North Carolina State University and sponsored by USAID; and the author officially investigating nematode problems in all emirates of the United Arab Emirates and in Yemen, and unofficially in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
	www.fao.org /docrep/v9978e/v9978e0h.htm (3006 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Water for the Future: The West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel, and Jordan (1999)
		The transition to the Rift Valley (a part of the Syrian-African rift), east of the uplands is sharp, with land altitudes falling from 600 m above sea level to 200 to 400 m below sea level over a distance of about 15 km.
		The average annual rainfall in the central and northern highlands west of the Jordan Rift Valley ranges from 200 to 1,000 mm and ranges in the highlands east of the valley from 200 to 600 mm.
		For the area east of the Rift Valley, the volume of annual precipitation is almost 8,500 million m3, based on an average rainfall of 94 mm per year over the 89,900 km2 area (Water Authority of Jordan, 1996 Annual Report).
	www.nap.edu /books/030906421X/html/24.html (7381 words)

	Israel - Topography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the north of this region lie the mountains and hills of Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee; farther to the south are the Samarian Hills with numerous small, fertile valleys; and south of Jerusalem are the mainly barren hills of Judea.
		Several valleys cut across the highlands roughly from east to west; the largest is the Yizreel or Jezreel Valley (also known as the Plain of Esdraelon), which stretches forty-eight kilometers from Haifa southeast to the valley of the Jordan River, and is nineteen kilometers across at its widest point.
		In Israel the Rift Valley is dominated by the Jordan River, Lake Tiberias (known also as the Sea of Galilee and to Israelis as Lake Kinneret), and the Dead Sea.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-6719.html (541 words)

	Jordan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jordan was also expelled from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which resulted in further influxes of Palestinian refugees.
		In 1991 Jordan's economic situation had been further strained with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Kuwaiti refugees seeking asylum and on Dec. 30, 1991 the government passed an IMF approved austerity program.
		Also during 1993 Jordan had formulated an agreement with the PLO that would give the Central Bank of Jordan monetary responsibilities during the transitional period of Palestinian self-rule while King Hussein also continued to work to end Iraq's isolation in the Arab world.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/jordan.htm (1510 words)

	Seroprevalence of West Nile, Rift Valley, and Sandfly Arboviruses in Hashimiah, Jordan
		The Rift Valley strain was ZH-501, which was passed in mice (6 times), in E-6 cells (once), and in Vero cells (3 times).
		The presence of the disease in Jordan is not unexpected as its known geographic distribution includes the Middle East, Africa, southern Europe, and Asia (4).
		The absence of Rift Valley virus infection among the studied population does not mean it is absent in other areas in Jordan.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol6no4/batieha.htm (2554 words)

	A Directory of Wetlands in the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Temperatures in the Jordan Valley, Wadi Araba and Aqaba region can rise to 45C in summer, and the mean annual temperature is 24C.
		Much of Jordan is desert or semi-desert with an arid climate, and as a consequence there are rather few large natural wetlands, the best known being Azraq Oasis in the Eastern Desert.
		The International Jordan Expedition of 1966, organized by the Conservation of Terrestrial Communities section of the International Biological Programme, compiled information on the climatology, hydrology, limnology, entomology, ornithology, mammalogy, human ecology, logistics and management of the oasis (Loffler and Bonomi, 1966; Morton Boyd, 1967).
	www.wetlands.org /inventory&/MiddleEastDir/JORDAN.htm (14096 words)

	Air , Ground & Maritime Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		They are located in the northern rift valley, in part of the high lands between the desert and the rift.
		Relief is difficult, with a serious obstacle to east-west links,between Jordan and the rest of the area, due to the Jordan Rift Valley ruggedness.
		It is prolonged south-westward (Cairo, Nile Valley) by the coastal corridor.
	www.pnic.gov.ps /english/transportation/air.html (8364 words)

	Generating Water in Mideast- Beautiful and Necessary--Schiller Institute
		Ten are shown on the Mediterranean coast (Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza); one on the Gulf of Aqaba (Jordan); one on a proposed Red-Dead Sea Canal (Jordan); and three on a proposed Med-Dead Canal, whose Mediterranean starting point might be in Gaza.
		The three plants on the canal are shown inland, illustrating that one facility might produce water for Gaza and the West Bank, and the other facility along the canal, for Israel.
		In the north, a proposed seawater conveyance route is shown, to signify a potential tunnel from the Mediterranean to the Jordan Valley, where the conduit could supply seawater feedstock to a desalination facility for Jordan.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /economy/phys_econ/phys_water_eir-5-01.html (1138 words)

	Jordan Rift Valley- Telecommunications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On August 17, 1995 the Jordan Rift Valley Telecom Working Group agreed to conduct a study of the feasibility of deploying high capacity optical fiber systems along the JRV.
		The competitive position of the JRV as an international telecommunication corridor was analyzed in the study.
		The Booz-Allen and Hamilton study indicates that this project is feasible under all conditions and that its viability is independent of the other two proposed JRV projects.
	www.israel.org /MFA/Peace%20Process/Regional%20Projects/Jordan%20Rift%20Valley-%20Telecommunications (550 words)

	Distances among Palestinian Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The main transportation goal of building this road is to connect Naqab in the south to Jerusalem, Nablus and the Jordan rift valley in the north so as to avoid passing through the greater Jerusalem and condensed Palestinian gatherings in Bethlehem and Hebron.
		The purpose of these roads and their extension up to the Jordan valley is to serve the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and ensure a safe passage from and into Israel.
		It is intended to cross the Jordan valley (the Dead Sea coast).
	www.pnic.gov.ps /english/transportation/among.html (6008 words)

	Jordan Rift (BiblePlaces.com)
		Though the Nahal Arnon is a two-mile-wide valley inland (see Moab and Edom), it exits into the Dead Sea in a narrow gorge.
		The Jordan Valley (Daily Bible Study) Informative study providing facts about the Jordan River and the biblical events that happened there.
		The Jordan Valley (The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) Hosted by the Jordanian government, this site provides many facts about the Jordan Valley and the places within it, including the Jordan River, Deir 'Alla, and Pella.
	www.bibleplaces.com /jordanrift.htm (548 words)

	To The Ends Of The Earth--Sodom and Gomorrah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From the flat, barren deserts in the south to the soaring, snow-capped Mt. Hermon in the north, from the sunny Mediterranean coastline in the west to the plunging chasm of the Jordan Rift Valley on the east, Israel is a land of dramatic contrasts.
		The Jordan Rift Valley descends more than 1,000 feet below sea level (1300 ft, 400 m), the deepest point on the surface of the earth above water.* That's why the root meaning of Jordan is "to go down" (yarad in Hebrew)--way down.
		Today, the northern section, where the Jordan River flows, is known as the Jordan Valley; the dry southern section is known (in Modern Hebrew) as the Aravah.
	www.totheends.com /sodom.html (2946 words)

	Great Rift Valley
		The northernmost extension runs S through Syria and Lebanon, the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea, and the Gulf of Aqaba.
		The main section of the valley in Africa continues from the Red Sea SW across Ethiopia and S across Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi to the lower Zambezi River valley in Mozambique.
		The Great Rift Valley ranges in elevation from c.1,300 ft (395 m) below sea level (the Dead Sea) to c.6,000 ft (1,830 m) above sea level in S Kenya.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0821681.html (271 words)

	JORDAN RIFT-VALLEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It was, and still is, an important site because of its warm climate, abundant springs of water, and strategic location astride a point where caravans could travel east to west along the Jordan Valley.
		Although there are only 70 miles between the two bodies of water, with all of its twists and turns the Jordan is about 110 miles long.
		God identified the Jordan as the eastern border of the Promised Land; here John the Baptist baptized many, including Jesus himself.
	www.sareltours.com /jordanrift.html (411 words)

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