Lake Kinneret Water Level Drops 20 Centimeters
The water level in Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) has dropped 20 centimeters in the past month, according to environmental officials.
The water level in Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) has dropped 20 centimeters in the past month, according to environmental officials.
A Jordanian paper reports that Jordan is negotiating with Israel, and not for the first time, for the purchase of water from the Sea of Galilee.
The PA is refusing to cooperate with Israel on water conservation and quality control, leaving its own people in the lurch.
The PA claims Israel denies water for Arabs, but reports prove Israel – unlike Jordan before 1967 – has connected most of the PA to water grid.
The Kinneret has started to rise – but far more slowly than in previous years, with just one-fourth last year's increase.
Israel's Cabinet has approved a multi-prong plan to deal with the growing water crisis in the country. First up: more desalination.
Weekend rains have brought the water level of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) up by 2.5 centimeters (1 inch), the Water Authority said Sunday.
Israel and Syria are involved in indirect talks to export Israeli apples in return for Syrian water, according to Likud’s Druze MK Ayoub Kara.
Students at Machon Lev, a Torah-and-technology institution, have developed a small, cheap sensor that warns of water leaks in home piping systems.
Israel's Minister of National Infrastructure asks government offices to work together to solve Israel’s continuing water crisis.
Technological cooperation works as Israeli company conducts desalination seminar for Jordanians and PA Arabs in Kibbutz Shefayim.
Though the PA has its own water system, Arabs often illegally siphon water from Israeli pipes. Mekorot/police disconnected 230 pirate connections.
Water Authority project installs "Chas-cham" conserving device on sinks in over 40,000 homes in central and southern Israel.
Jews living in the Hevron region face daily water theft at the hands of their PA neighbors; thieves use as much as 75% of water.
The cabinet has approved construction of a desalination plant south of Tel Aviv that is to supply 300 million cubic meters of water per year.
PM asks for quick answers on proposed desalination project, commits to cutting bureaucracy to slash water prices.
Water flowed in from the Jordan River and was not pumped out of the northern lake. The result: a 2.5 inch rise in the water level.
The city of Jerusalem will reuse water from mikvaot (ritual baths) in hopes of saving water and money.
The Knesset Committee for the Interior and Environmental Protection on Monday approved a bill accelerating the treatment of waste water in Israel.
The first snow of the winter dumped up to two feet of the white stuff on the upper slopes of the Hermon. Flood warnings were posted in the south.
Interest in the 6-week-old Water Authority strike is sparse because it doesn't affect the water supply - but the Kinneret level remains unmeasured.
Lindenstrauss says steep imminent water price hikes were not set professionally and will hurt weaker sectors. MKs Regev,. Hasson: Stop the hikes.
Water Authority workers will begin a strike on Wednesday, ignoring permit requests and halting the measurement of the Kinneret.
Three Israeli companies are trying to solve the water crisis, each in its own area – desalinating, securing and preserving.
Arab/Islamic affairs expert Prof. Moshe Sharon says Syrian threats of war need not scare Israel – and we must not give them access to our water.
A professor in Jordan, considered one of Israel’s warmest Arab neighbors, charges that Israel will wage war against Egypt and Lebanon for water.
The Water Authority rejects claims by Amnesty that Israelis drink at the PA’s expense. “The PA is violating Oslo Accords with illegal drilling.”
Israeli and Jordanian scientists are working on a new way to reduce the cost of purifying water from the sea.
The Israel Water Works Association explains why Arab local authorities waste the most water, even during drought.
The State Comptroller has been asked to review a water import deal that was signed with Turkey in 2004 but never was implemented
Scientists discovered that a rare desert plant waters itself, enabling it to receive 16 times the amount of rainwater that falls on it each year.