Low water level in the Kinneret

Though Israel has desalination plants scheduled to go online next year and more by 2013, this evidently wont help the current situation due to overuse and the lack of rainfall in the past few years.  The Kinneret is already way below the red line, and if things continue this, the water levels might even fall below the pumps currently installed.

This has led to a ’smoothing over’ of the crisis with Turkey as Israel is reviving a plan to have Turkish water shipped by tankers to Israel in an effort to alleviate the water crisis…at least till all the desalination plants go online.  Let’s all hope for a wet winter in Israel to help out a little until technology can give Mother Nature a boost.

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