Drought Battle: Israel to Use Desalinated Water to Rescue the Sea of Galilee
View of the Kinneret from Arbel Mountain, Photo, GPO, Einat Anke JERUSALEM, Israel – Following five consecutive years of below-average winter rainfall, Israeli cabinet ministers passed a $30 million measure to replenish the Sea of Galilee and seven northern streams severely affected by the drought. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River are also suffering…