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Israelis and Palestinians Clean up Rivers to Save Endangered Turtles, Improve Drinking Water

February 17, 2005

Jerusalem, Israel - In an area of olive and avocado groves northeast of Tel Aviv, a river of sewage snakes from the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, under Israel's separation barrier and into a river where an endangered species of soft-shelled turtle once thrived.

They hope not only to save the rivers and the life they support, but also the underground aquifer the people share.

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