The Israeli water company Mekorot announced that it regularly seeds rain clouds as a method of bringing more water to the Jewish State. According to the head of the project, Shimon Chamu, during this past weekend the company flew over 46 hours of rain seeding flights.
Since November, Mekorot has flown around 290 hours in an attempt to create more rain. This represents a large increase from flights last year which were only around 138 hours. According to studies, the cloud seeding method has successfully increased rainfall in the north by 13 percent.