The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 252)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 252)

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never seriously pursued by the government on account of high cost."
In the case of rivers, the Jordan and Auja were the only two whose waters
were exploitable. In 1921, a government concession was given to the Jewish
European owned Jaffa Electric Company (later the Palestine Electric Company) to
generate power from the Auja, but later changed to an irrigation concession. This
was slow in implementation by the company and by 1937 it only irrigated about
5,000 dunums. As for the Jordan River, it was never exploited because the
government, again, considered the cost of pumping to be too high.”
There were many springs in Palestine that ranged from small seasonal ones
with a capacity of few thousand gallons a day to larger perennial ones with a
discharge of tens of millions of gallons a day.'© The bigger springs were located
primarily in the plains and the Jordan Valley and the hill regions had the smaller
ones.
Finally, there was the underground water, which represented the major
source of irrigation or about 70 percent of the total. Most of these wells were
located in the coastal plains at a depth of only 10 to 25 meters, whereas those in
the hill areas, when dug, were up to 200 meters deep.”
“Survey I, 398, 420.
SHimadeh, “Natural Resources,” 49-50.
Ibid., 51.
Survey I, 422.
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