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Providing potable water to Jordan, with the purpose to improve
bilateral relations, and the ability to expand bidirectional transport of
freight & goods from Haifa to the future Jordanian Railway Network [1
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CONFIDENTIAL NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
November 21, 2018
Summary
This write-up is part of my previous writing dated Nov. 20 2018 in relation to a solution to the
Gaza Strip. In this letter, the proposed project purpose is to foster closer mutual
cooperation between Jordan and Israel and remove any potential frictions related
to water rights in sharing the groundwater basins and several aquifers. It is anticipated that
Jordan will be taking on itself the obligation to provide additional potable water to the West
Bank if needed. Since August this year I wrote several e-mails to Mr. Dan Shapiro
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at INSS. The proposed plan is in line with US research
organization CNA http://www.cna.org/ mentioned in my Nov. 20 2018 letter. To the reader
please see https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/pdf/CRM-2017-U-016532-Final.pdf
During my last business meeting at the US Department of State it was brought to my
attention by; the Senior Coordinator for Business Affairs, the Special Assistant to the
Coordinator for Business Affairs, Senior Economic Officers and Economic Officer for Jordan
Lebanon Syria etc., within the Dept. of State, the urgent need to improve the availability of the
water supply to Jordan due to the present undesirable situation in Jordan regarding potable
water for agriculture and civilian use. As a general remark both Israel and Jordan suffer from
chronic water scarcity, by international standards. As the subject is for political consideration I
present an in principle concept without going into detailed calculations of supply and demand.
The Israeli part in this proposal is enabling way of passage of Mediterranean Sea water
from Haifa/HaKishon River to Jordan [3] which is a mere 45-46 miles distance in a straight line
which “Sea Water Conveyance” will be owned and operated by an international consortium with
OPIC/EBRD/EIB/World Bank guaranties, and as mentioned below the power needs for the
various pumps and filtration will be delivered from Jordan’s solar fields build in the Jordanian
Desert. As safety precautions every 6 to 8 miles safety looks will be inserted within the sea water
conveyance pipeline (similar to the safety procedures used in the emerging technology of
Hyperloop), to avoid soil and underground water bodies/reservoirs contamination by the salty
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The anticipated “Jordanian Railway Network” project will allow for the integration of the Jordanian railway system with a
future regional network.
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Please note that in September 5
th
, 2017, I asked for the possibility of cooperation with Gidon Bromberg Director at
EcoPeace Middle East and received in response a refusal of cooperation for unknown reasons. Mr. Oded Eran, a senior
research fellow at INSS was also very negative in our telephone conversation on or about the month September 2017

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sea water within the sea water conveyance, with proper water extraction pumps that will return
the salty sea water to the Mediterranean Sea which is an engineering solution.
The actual new project on the Israeli part is;
(i) The rezoning of the sea water pumping area as a high security zone, with very limited
and only validated ability of entrance of the qualified personnel.
(ii) As the underground Sea Water Conveyance Project from Haifa region to Jordan
territory is not visible to the general population and does not infringe on any usable
property rights within Israel, I do not expect public resistance to the project if proper
safety measures are taken.
(iii) From a technical point, the only energy consumed on the Israeli side would by sea
water pumping to start the flow of sea water into the underground “Sea Water
Conveyance” from Haifa region, as the earth gravity will do the rest of the work, as the
Jordan valley is around 250 meters below the Mediterranean Sea surface. This layout
if properly planed will not affect any of the Yezrael valley fields or villages.
The project aspect from the Jordanian side;
(iv) The Jordanians will choose their own location for their own Mediterranean Sea Water
desalinization plant and the desired size, of the desalination facility if they chose to
operate one or two as an example, which Jordanian choice will also dictate the size
and cost of the Sea Water Conveyance Project from Haifa region to Jordan.
(v) Jordan possesses large unpopulated desert plains which are very suitable for erecting
new solar farms [4] and install appropriate electrical power storage facilities for a
sustainable capacity for the operation of the desalinations plant. (See California Public
Utilities Commission (CPUC) approval of three capacity contracts for 567.5Mwh of
energy storage capacity to be built across four large-scale battery storage systems).
(vi) The energy transmission would be preferable in MVDC instead of AC due to the low
electrical losses with no need of conversion from DC to AC and lower transmission
loss, by using DC current network over long distances or if the source is DC current.
(vii) My suggestion for the sea water desalination plant is to use the more efficient and
modern desalination methods based on nano technology like separation of chlorine
from the sea water (MIT solution), carbon nanostructures for water desalination; like
graphene membranes and CNT or MWCNT etc., and tunable sieving of ions using
graphene oxide membranes or “MOF” membranes for extracting the various minerals
contained in the brine of the desalination plant. Those are novel technological
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Jordan already has in operation several solar farms with the latest solar farm under contract for less than $0.024 per Kwh

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solutions and can be explained in more detail if needed.
As mentioned in my previous writings, the contracts will be based on RFP’s for qualified
companies in each field of expertise, preferable not wholly owned Israeli Companies like
Mekorot, or similar, for the simple political reasons, of avoiding unnecessary political
squabbling. Therefore the candidates would be International Engineering companies with wide
experience in this field to achieve the ultimate goal closer cooperation between
Jordan and Israel. My personal goal is to engage with the team that will be involved in this
endeavor and contribute from my multifaceted experience gained over the years.
Gained know how and experience will be sold to other interested parties.
Please feel free to ask any clarification questions in writing and will be happy to respond.
Sincerely yours, on November 21, 2018
Haim R. Branisteanu
HVDC converter station. The converter hall shown here is part of an HVDC transmission link between France and
Spain. It utilizes Siemens’ HVDC Plus insulated-gate bipolar transistor converter modules to supply capacity of
1,000 MW with voltage of 320 kV, which is currently the most powerful link in the world, using voltage source
converter technology. Courtesy: Siemens