Palestine

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.

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

Palestinian farmers and international supporters hold prayer service and march protesting confiscation of farmland and water sources by the Israeli military.
Palestinian farmers from villages in the Tulkarem and Qalqilya regions of the Israeli occupied West Bank will gather Friday between Beit Amin and Izbet Salman to pray on their land. The Israeli Military plans to seize over 80,000 dunams of fertile farmland (one dunam is approximately a quarter acre) and nearly all of the region's 37 water wells.

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

Pumping nearly all of the water out of Lake Tiberias 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.