Israel

Israel-Turkey Negotiating Water for Weapons Agreement
Israel and Turkey are on the brink of an historic agreement as the two nations finalized plans to sign a strategic water partnership. Israel, in dire need of additional dependable fresh water sources, has agreed to purchase 50 million cubic meters of Turkish water per year for 20 years with transferal set to begin in 2006.

11,000 Palestinians between Israel's apartheid wall and Green Line
The valuable Western Aquifer System, lying in the West Bank and Israel, will also be entirely under Israeli control, as lands in Qalqiyla will be seized. Thousands of dunums of prime agricultural land, some of the most fertile in the West Bank, will be seized, in a society with a traditional economy based on agriculture. The agricultural economy has become increasingly important during this Intifada, as belligerent re-occupation, curfews, checkpoints and other forms of collective punishment and closure have isolated West Bank towns from each other, leading to a growing reliance on local and home produce for both immediate sustenance and employment.

River Runs Through Mideast Dispute
A 22-inch pipe plunges into a spring along the Wazzani River in southern Lebanon, meant soon to siphon water for delivery to nearby hamlets and help make the parched landscape bloom. But the Wazzani River flows from Lebanon south into Israel, and the pipe's recent appearance, along with unrelated earthworks, has prompted a round of regional tension.

Mekorot: Disruption of drinking water supplies possible
The Mekorot National Water Company recommends the immediate reduction of water consumption by all available means. Over-pumping will reach 153 million cubic meters in 2002, and Lake Kinneret will fall below the red line. view photos below

What is left of Israel's claim of making the desert flourish? "The Sea of Galilee" before the depletion of its fresh water supply. The next frame will indicate the consequences of sapping the last drop of water.

Pumping nearly all of the water out of the The Sea of Galilee is not what we would call "making desert flourish". Over-pumping will reach 153 million cubic meters in 2002, and Lake Kinneret will fall below the red line. Over-pumping would reach 153 million cubic meters by the end of the year, mostly in the coastal aquifer. Specialists have warned against a further drop in the quality of water from the Kinneret, as a result of the persistence of low water levels.