IRRIGATION OF JORDAN
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ROOM FOR MORE PEOPLE WOULD BE PROvTDED.
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LONDpN, March 17. j Falestine could a'bsorb l,c00,000 ! more people if the Jordan Valley were developed ancl irrigated, is the opinion of ' two American engineers who gave evid&nce at the BritishAmerican Committee of Inquirx/ on Palestine, Txiey were Mr. J. L. Savage, the designer cf the Grand Coulee and Boulder dams, and Mr. J. B. Hays, an authority on hydro-electric projects. They advocated the execution of £60,600,000 Jordan Valley plans as pruposed by an American 1 soil conservation expert, Dr. W. T. (j Lowdermilk. . , Mr. Hays later said tlxe project | would provide work for 4000, wduld j take less than ten years to comp.ete and would open up more than 600,000 acres of land. The Palestine Govern- j ment had shown a complete lack of ' enthusiasm for the scheme. 6 i
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1946, Page 5
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