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If there's one thing Mideast countries need, it's potable water. Thanks to a series of technical assistancestudies managed by the European Investment Bank, the Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline will be a vital solution to the water crisis.Technical assistance brought the pipeline to this advanced stage. Water engineer Harald Schölzel and water economist Edouard Pérard came on A Dictionary of Finance podcast to explain how technical assistance works in the context of a major development project like Red-Dead, as well as another desalination plant in Gaza.

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