The Nature and National Parks Authority, together with the Water Authority, the Mekorot national water company and the Mei Golan Water Association are preparing to inject clean drilling water into a number of Golan Heights streams, in which unusual pollution and fear of the infectious disease leptospirosis (Achberet in Hebrew) have been discovered.
The flow is intended to increase flow rates in streams with clean water, thereby reducing pollutant concentrations in streams that were closed due to abnormal samples. The injections will start immediately and are expected to continue until after the holidays. The Nature and Parks Authority stresses that beyond the six streams that have been banned for bathing all other water sources in the north are permitted for bathing. The authority and the Ministry of Health and will continue to sample rivers for water quality.