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According to other reports Israel desalinated only around 16,500 cubic meter/day (m 3 /d) of brackish water in 2008, corresponding to 6 million m 3 /year. In 2008 the government planned to increase this capacity more than 13-fold to somewhere between 220,000 m 3 /d and 274,000 m 3 /d by 2012.
Once unthinkable, given Israel's history of drought and lack of available fresh water resources, with desalination Israel can now produce a surplus of fresh water. [56] By 2014, Israel's desalination programs provided roughly 35% of Israel's drinking water, about 50% in 2015, and it is expected to supply 70% by 2050. [57]
However, at that time only 850,000,000–900,000,000 cubic metres (8.5 × 10 11 –9.0 × 10 11 L) was available. The shortage was attributed to poor rains, climate change, a ballooning population and a high refugee influx. [3] To mitigate its water shortfall, the Jordanian government opened a desalination plant in 2017.
Israel and Jordan moved one step closer Tuesday to realizing a pivotal cross-border resource exchange — signing a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the United Nations climate ...
[42] [43] Israel sells a limited part of the water to the Palestinians in Gaza. [52] While Israel transports water from the north of its territory to the south, the Palestinians are not allowed to move water from the West Bank to Gaza. This is a reason why this aquifer is heavily over-exploited, resulting in seawater intrusion.
As President Joe Biden urged Americans on Thursday night to support his request for $74 billion in aid to Ukraine and Israel, he reminded listeners that the military hardware shipped abroad is ...
Still, Mitchell said he thinks desalination has a place in California’s water portfolio,and noted that it has already proved viable in Australia and Israel, which gets nearly 90% of its drinking ...
The Occupation of the American Mind is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, and narrated by Roger Waters. [1] The film seeks to show how the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobby groups use their influence in the American media to shape the views of the American people on its control of the West Bank and Gaza. [2]