Jordan is expected to buy 10 million cubic meters of additional water from Israel's Lake Kinneret supply this summer due to water shortages in the Jordan Valley, Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm reported an unidentified Jordanian Water Ministry official as saying in a story on Monday.
Amman secretly purchased 2 million cubic meters late last summer, the paper also reported.
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Jordan remains the fourth poorest country in the world in terms of water availability, according to the author, who refused to speak to The Jerusalem Post.
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Israel already provides Jordan with 25 million cubic meters of water from the Kinneret each summer, and Jordan is able to pump an additional 10 million as per the 1994 Israeli-Jordanian peace agreement.
The Israel Water Authority had no comment on the alleged deal.
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