Ecologists, climatologists, geographers and anyone with eyes in their heads have been warning for several years that our environment is becoming drier and the desert is spreading and occupying areas that were fertile and humid.
Israel has prepared itself for the lack of water by building desalination plants that provide water mainly for drinking purposes, sewage treatment and redirecting the water to agriculture and industry, which provide solutions for large parts of the center and south of the country. Agricultural and forestry projects in the south create an image as if we have overcome the desert and it is not, since the "green" image creates a wrong impression. There is no doubt that global warming and climate change affect us radically and acutely.
So what can be done? I fell short of solving the problems of desertification and desiccation and yet: there is a need for the immediate construction of the water desalination plant in the north. Even if its construction will harm the residents of the area and the surrounding area, the collection and storage of floodwater in populated and urban areas that flow to the Mediterranean Sea and its discharge to the north is essential! So is the storage of purified sewage water from Gush Dan and its discharge to the north, instead of discharge to the sea.
there is program for the flow of water from the Mediterranean Sea to the East which was submitted to the authorities. The plan was submitted with the intention of increasing the flow in southern Jordan and thus mitigating the dying of the Dead Sea. The implementation of the plan will enable the supply of desalinated water to the northern farmers as well. Of course, in order to fulfill this plan, it is necessary to withdraw support from the illusory project given the pretentious name "The Leader of Peace", about whose cost and benefits I have written extensively (see: 1, 2, 3, 4).
It is necessary to overcome the illusory initiatives of politicians, since today it is too late and the "leaders of peace" initiatives are no longer with us, we can and should abandon and allow the flow of Mediterranean water to the east. The discharge will enable the supply of water to the north, the Kinneret and Jordan.
Time and again it turns out that in order to do things correctly it is necessary to overcome the initiatives of politicians and implement the ideas of professionals...
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In our current administration I am skeptical. Although Steinitz visited Kinneret today.
I agree with every word. The land can be made to bloom even without the rain.
Another point: according to the scientists, the temperature in Israel will rise to 52 degrees and it is painted red on the UN map for the future: un inhabitable. And that worries me a lot. Apart from the wars that will be in the area, we will not be able to live outside closed compounds. This prediction was issued by the United Nations.
And even if they save the main water sources, what will happen to the streams and vegetation? It is clear that the situation is catastrophic and even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced the situation will still get worse all over the world. What about the "cooling" of the atmosphere by sulfur oxides, can someone who understands better than me elaborate?
There is a possibility to flow desalinated water in the amount of 300 mlcm per year to the beginning of the Jordan (north of Lake Hula), thus increasing the flow of the Jordan to the Sea of Galilee from 500 to 800 mlcm per year. This amount will offset the amount of water emitted into the atmosphere (and as we have seen in recent years, hardly ever returns in the form of rain) and will allow over time the filling of the Sea of Galilee and perhaps even the release of water to southern Jordan and the Dead Sea. The layout of the water flow specifically to the beginning of the Jordan will enable the rehabilitation of the Hula, which will filter the organic materials that reach the Sea of Galilee today and enable the bloom of algae, and at the same time the flow of the desalinated water along this route will enrich it with minerals from the soil that are missing when they leave the desalination plant. The annual cost of such a quantity of desalinated water at a rate of 2 shekels per cubic meter is 600 million shekels per year, an amount that the government could easily finance from a budget of 376 billion shekels and considering that it is about the restoration of the Sea of Galilee and in the future possibly the Dead Sea as well.
Everything is true, and it is also forbidden to give water to Jordan (the country), they are bitter enemies despite the lousy Hudayba agreement and it is forbidden to help them because it will be to our detriment