The Kinneret Sea now stands at 213.5 meters below sea level, only a half-meter below the original government-mandated minimum red line. The minimum level beyond which the Kinneret is forbidden to fall has been lowered by 2.5 meters in the past two years, after it was found that the feared irreparable damage to Kinneret water quality - by plant-growth accumulation and sediments - did not materialize. The current level is thus exactly two meters above the official red line.
The Kinneret, the country\'s largest reservoir, has risen 35 centimeters in the past 15 days, and 25 centimeters in the past eight days - an increase of 40 million cubic meters in Israel\'s water supply. Kinneret Authority head Tzvi Otenberg told Arutz-7 today,
\"Passover was a blessed holiday, in that G-d sent us much rain - and in an organized and convenient way in terms of the water being absorbed and gathered together. Much of the rain fell directly on the Kinneret, and more fell in the areas from where it rolled into the Kinneret, and will continue to do so for several weeks... This winter was pretty good, and it could have been much worse, but it\'s almost like aspirin for a cancer patient - we\'re still missing 4.6 meters to get to the optimum - and we need solutions such as desalination urgently. However, if until two weeks ago I thought that our situation at the end of this summer would be the worst it ever was, taking us way below the -215 meter mark, it now looks like it won\'t be worse than last year, when we stopped going down at -214.87.\"
The Kinneret, the country\'s largest reservoir, has risen 35 centimeters in the past 15 days, and 25 centimeters in the past eight days - an increase of 40 million cubic meters in Israel\'s water supply. Kinneret Authority head Tzvi Otenberg told Arutz-7 today,
\"Passover was a blessed holiday, in that G-d sent us much rain - and in an organized and convenient way in terms of the water being absorbed and gathered together. Much of the rain fell directly on the Kinneret, and more fell in the areas from where it rolled into the Kinneret, and will continue to do so for several weeks... This winter was pretty good, and it could have been much worse, but it\'s almost like aspirin for a cancer patient - we\'re still missing 4.6 meters to get to the optimum - and we need solutions such as desalination urgently. However, if until two weeks ago I thought that our situation at the end of this summer would be the worst it ever was, taking us way below the -215 meter mark, it now looks like it won\'t be worse than last year, when we stopped going down at -214.87.\"