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Lebanon Wednesday began pumping water from the Wazzani River despite Israel's threat of military action should the project go ahead and U.S. efforts to mediate between the two sides fail.
"It is our right to use the water defined in our share of the Wazzani spring," President Emile Lahoud told United Press International in an exclusive interview a few hours before the inauguration of the new pumping station on the Wazzani.
Lebanon wants to use the water from the river, which flows for about 2 miles inside the country before entering Israel, for border-area villages.
With the additional 4 million cubic meters Beirut plans to pump from the Wazzani, Lebanon will have a combined 10 million cubic meters from the Wazzani and the Hasbani rivers, well below the 35 million cubic meters allowed under a 1995 deal.
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