This paper explores the Red-Dead Canal as part of the Master Plan for the Jordan Rift Valley. This mega-project - also referred to as the Peace Conduit - is being advanced as a solution for both the development and political challenges facing Palestinian Authority, Israel and Jordan. The Red-Dead Canal project is a multi-purpose project that will convey 1.8 billion cubic meters of water per year through a water conduit some 180 kilometers from the Red Sea to the vicinity of the Dead Sea. Often referred to as “the Peace Conduit,” it has general formal purposes. The first one is to save the Dead Sea from environmental degradation. Secondly it would provide desalinated water for Amman, the Palestinian Authority and Jerusalem, and generate hydro-electric energy at affordable prices. Finally the project is also presented as a symbol of peace and cooperation in the Middle East. Relying on techniques associated with the emerging field of global ethnography, the paper documents the agencies involved in the proposed Canal project and explores how certain (neoliberal) assumptions are being inscribed into the technologies deployed by the project, and–indeed—into the nature/environment of the Jordan Rift Valley itself. In other words we view the canal as a materialization of both globalist assumptions and shifting power positions. As such the focus of the paper is not on the classical development impact of technical projects of infrastructural development. Instead we emphasize the values, interests and modalities of power and control inscribed within projects as the Red-Dead Canal, and the ways such projects shape the politics of the populations most affected by them. By the time the canal project has finished, it will have affected and will keep on affecting the life and the environment of many people in the region. For that reason this paper will also trace the subaltern strategies of resistance, subterfuge, and creative appropriation articulated in the wake of this multi-purpose project.