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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

desalination

This picture shows a view of the reservoir of the Mujib Dam, the main water supply to Amman, in the Madaba governorate, about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) north of the Jordanian capital, on April 20, 2021. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP / File)
January 12, 2025, 9:34 pm
Jordan signs deal with French-led group to build massive desalination plant
New $5 billion Red Sea project to supply more than 300 million cubic meters of drinking water comes after cancellation of joint project with Israel
By AFP
Palestinians collect clean drinking water at a desalination plant that now operates round the clock in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 26, 2024, 11:35 am
Water desalination quietly returns to Gaza, after work by Israel and PA
Repair of Deir al-Balah plant, connected to Israel’s power grid, seen as potential roadmap for Palestinian Authority’s involvement in postwar Gaza
By AFP
Prof Charlotte Vogt (third from left) and researchers at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa. Or Mayraz is first left. (Nitzan Zohar).
September 22, 2024, 2:26 pm
Technion startup aims to keep coastal industry systems clean while capturing CO₂
MOZAICO uses electrochemistry rather than chemicals to stop scale buildup in coastal cooling systems, converting CO2 into marketable calcium carbonate
By Sue Surkes
The Zomi camp for displaced people in southwestern Gaza. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 9, 2024, 1:26 am
Palestinians, Israelis partner to bring off-grid solutions to Gaza camps
Damour for Community Development and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies want to show international donors value of wastewater treatment, desalination, solar energy solutions
By Sue Surkes
Boys walk with jerrycans to fill up from a water truck in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 25, 2024. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
July 3, 2024, 12:57 pm
Daily Briefing July 3: Day 271 – How Israel and the PA are already cooperating in Gaza
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on how a cooperative desalination project may be a pilot project for Ramallah’s role in the Strip; Canaan Lidor reports from two miles from Lebanon
By ToI Staff
Salt formations and sinkholes at the Dead Sea, southern Israel, May 2, 2023. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
May 29, 2024, 6:17 pm
Environment Ministry unveils old-new plan to slow demise of Dead Sea
Subject to Israeli and Jordanian approval, project would desalinate Mediterranean seawater using hydroelectricity, sell drinking water to Jordan and channel brine to Dead Sea
By Sue Surkes
A worker at the Ein Netafim wastewater treatment plant walks past a primary treatment water clarifier basin in Eilat on July 13, 2023. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
August 10, 2023, 4:18 pm
Israeli desalination, wastewater treatment becomes global model for water scarcity
Chief engineer of Eilat’s water and sewage utility says all of the city’s wastewater is treated, and ‘transferred, to the last drop, to farmers,’ who use it to water crops
By Jonah Mandel
Small bridges connect a bank of the Jordan River to an island as part of an upgrade being carried out by the Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority between the Alumot Dam and Menahhemia in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Kinneret Drainage and Streams Authority)
March 11, 2023, 2:08 am
Quietly, a stretch of the Jordan River is being cleaned up and transformed
Earthworks and landscaping are aimed at attracting visitors, tourists, with plans to make water safe for swimming; the cleanup will still leave Jordan, Palestinians high and dry
By Sue Surkes
Screen capture from video of desalinated water being released from production plants to flow into the Sea of Galilee, December 28, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 28, 2022, 11:36 am
Pioneering plan inaugurated to top up Sea of Galilee with desalinated water
In world first, water produced from the sea will be pumped into Israel’s largest freshwater lake to maintain levels even in parched years
By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes
Members of the Eritrean and Ethiopian Christian Orthodox community from Tel Aviv participate in a baptismal ceremony in the waters of the Jordan River as part of the Orthodox Feast of the Epiphany at the Qasr al-Yahud baptismal site, near the West Bank town of Jericho January 19, 2018. (Oded Balilty/AP)
August 18, 2022, 11:10 am
Regional complications leave Jordan River rich in holiness, but poor in water
Efforts to rehabilitate valley conduit stymied as conservationists seek to reverse damage from years of conflict, resource abuse and pollution
By MARIAM FAM
Visitors top up their glasses with treated seawater at a desalination plant near Hadera, Israel. (Shay Levy/Flash90)
July 28, 2022, 11:08 am
Concerned by low iodine levels in desalinated water, Israel starts nationwide study
Hebrew University tests water supplies after Health Ministry finds iodine concentration among Israelis far below WHO-recommended levels, prompting childhood development worries
By Nathan Jeffay
In this Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 photo, an aerial view shows the Jordan River estuary of the Sea of Galilee near the community settlement of Karkom, northern Israel. .(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
July 26, 2022, 8:27 am
Government inks plan to clean part of Jordan River, make it fit for swimming again
Greenlit by Water Authority last year, program will end pollution, channel more freshwater into stretch of iconic river south of Sea of Galilee
By Sue Surkes
Part of a new 15 million euro solar plant during its official inauguration at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on November 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)
July 12, 2022, 4:27 pm
Trailblazing models show green windfall from Israel-Jordan-PA water, energy alliance
First-of-its kind-Oxford University project indicates that making Jordan a solar energy hub could speed carbon emission cuts in all three countries, save $47 billion by 2050
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image: Then-US vice president Joe Biden at the President's residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
July 10, 2022, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing July 10: All about the Biden trip, Boris exit and Israeli biome
Editor David Horovitz weighs in on goals of US president’s trip to region; environment reporter Sue Surkes talks desalinated water piped into Galilee & fungi as building material
By ToI Staff
Laying a pipe that will channel desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, June 3, 2021 (Firas Talhami, Water Authority)
June 28, 2022, 10:39 am
Israel to be 1st in world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake, the Galilee
Underground channel set to start operating in spring; Sea of Galilee expert says tests indicate more pros than cons, but full effect on ecosystems will only emerge with monitoring
By Sue Surkes
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