Prof. Uri Shani, who heads Israel’s Water Authority, has issued yet another warning that a water crisis is imminent, stating that sometime in June or July of this coming summer we may actually have to stop pumping from Lake Kinneret, the nation’s primary potable water source.
Shani stated that delays in salination plants and other measures that were not implemented will leave us high and dry, perhaps required to import water from other countries.
We are now less than a meter (39 inches) from the absolute red line of the Kinneret. Pumping after reaching that point could lead to the water becoming salinated and thereby, contaminating the Kinneret for future use.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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absolute red line? what a joke they keep lowering it
we need to daven
rabbosai,we need your help.i was in teverya this week for a few hours and saw the ever shrinking water level of the kinneret.it is practically empty for about 10 feet from the end, where it used to be meters high in water.we still have a few weeks left to daven for tal umatar.lets not wait till it’s too late