Photos Good Water Neighbors (Israel, Palestine and Jordan)

The Al Auja Eco Center serves a community meeting point for environmental education and a safe place to play for children.
Al Auja Center
The playground at Al Auja Eco Center
Center playground
Visiting high school students to Al Auja made this Dorm out of mud as an example of a low impact, eco-home.
Mud dormitory
The Al Auja spring has been severely polluted and overdrawn.
Al Auja spring
Hagai Oz with German tourists.
Hagai Oz
Hagai Oz showing what has become of the Jordan river to a German tour group visiting the Peace Island.
Jordan River tour
Sewage stream draining into the Jordan.
Sewage stream
Sewage being directly dumped into the Jordan just below its headwaters from the Sea of Galilee.
Sewage discharge
The Jordan has been reduced to a small fraction of its natural state and plagued by invasive Tamarisk shrubs.
Degraded Jordan River
Gidon Bromberg, Director of the Israeli office, gives a tour of the Baptism site drawing special attention to the degraded health of the river.
Baptism site tour
The Eco-Park boast more than 8 Eco-lodges.
Eco-Park lodges
Guests can rent two bed cabins at Sharhabil Bin Hassneh Eco-Park for $40 USD a night.
Eco-Park cabins
At the Sharhabil Bin Hassneh Eco-Center in Jordan, another example of reusing materials is demonstrated.
Reusing materials
Abed Sultan explains the history and the purpose of the Sharhabil Bin Hassneh Eco Park and Environmental Education Center.
Abed Sultan
Good Water Neighbors Conference in Tel Aviv.
Water Neighbors conference
Palestinian staff members pose for a picture at the Good Water Neighbors conference in Tel Aviv.
Palestinian staff
Good Water Neighbors project photo
Good Water Neighbors
Participants in a breakout session at the Good Water Neighbors Conference sharing their visions of what they imagine a world would look like with no borders.
Imagining borderless cooperation
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Jerry White, sits with religious leaders from the region.
Jerry White
Nader Khateb, FoEME's Palestinian Director, visits with religious leaders from the region at the Jordan River conference.
Nader Khateb
Muslims, Jews and Christians discuss FoEME's Source Books and give feedback in a breakout session.
Interfaith discussion
All three directors of FoEME pose for a picture with two Syrian Orthodox bishops and an Islamic community leader.
Directors and leaders
Launch of the Covenant to save the Jordan river.
Covenant launch
A professor of Islamic studies signs the Covenant after Rabbi Awraham. Two Syrian Orthodox Bishops and the Directors of FoEME look on in the background.
Covenant signing
Toasting to the rehabilitation of the Jordan with clean water.
Clean water toast
A conference toast to the health of the Jordan river.
Conference toast

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