PALESTINE’S ELECTRIC POWER
With the completion of three hydroelectric power stations that are being erected on the Jordan ltivcr, and the vast scheme of water storage, .Palestine is becoming modern and industrial. Ihe Jordan, with a fall of 3000 ft, from its source to tlie T)cH(i Sea ‘level lying 13C0ft. below sea level, is easily adaptable to hydro-electric schemes. three power stations will have horse-power, and are the beginning of ... a plan for the complete electrification of the Holy Land. The plants are privately owned, but the Government reserves the power to regulate the charges for current, Seasonal, Hood waters are. to be diverted so as to form tlie Sea. of Galilee into a huge reservoir for the dry season.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17608, 26 October 1931, Page 2
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