1. Suhbi Kahhaleh,The Water Problem in Israel and Its Repercussions on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, I.P.S. Papers No. 9 (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1981), p. 12.
2. Ibid.
3. M. Yakobowitz and Y. Prushansky, eds.The Water in Israel(Jerusalem: Israel Information Center, 1987), p. 21 (Hebrew), cited in Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People,Israel's Policy on the West Bank Water Resources(New York: United Nations, 1980), p. 1.
4. Ibid. 600 mem of water is located in underground aquifers and 250 mem is from surface run-off and the Jordan River.
5. Meron Benvenisti,1986 Report: Demographic, Economic, Legal, Social and Political Developments in the West Bank(Jerusalem: Jerusalem Post and West Bank Data Base Project, 1986), pp. 20–21.