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General view of a water desalination facility near Rishon LeZion, central Israel, September 2, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
September 2, 2026, 4:41 pm
New masterplan needed after desalination shutdown underlines dangers of tech overreliance
Experts blast complacency, urge reviving wells, natural buffers, and conservation to lower the 80% of drinking water that comes from coastal facilities
By Sue Surkes
Contaminated water flows in the Hebron Stream below Palestinian village of ad-Dahariya, between banks coated in stone dust, July 14, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2026, 5:02 am
As toxic sewage and factory sludge choke Hebron stream, locals refuse to go with the flow
Inadequate infrastructure and coordination result in dumping by Palestinian residents and industry, causing soil and groundwater pollution. Israel’s response has been frustratingly partisan
By Sue Surkes
Irrigating fields near the Gaza border in southern Israel, December 19, 2024. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 3, 2025, 9:13 am
Government amends Water Law to cut price for farmers
Agriculture Ministry, kibbutz and moshav movements, farmers’ federation, welcome move, which emphasizes speeding up the transition to using treated wastewater
By Sue Surkes
Wastewater contaminated by sewage flows into the Shikma Stream in southern Israel. (Atid LeOtef)
February 23, 2025, 8:19 am
Residents say state shirking responsibility over sewage pollution in southern stream
Untreated sewage has been flowing into stream for 9 months after damage at wastewater treatment plant; local official in charge of sewage says he lacks power to punish polluters
By Sue Surkes
Displaced Palestinians sit by tents across from a garbage dump in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
August 13, 2024, 12:11 pm
Disease without borders: Massive piles of garbage in Gaza also threaten Israel
Experts say even drinking water in Ashdod could be contaminated by toxic buildup from hundreds of untreated trash heaps, after Gaza’s waste removal system paralyzed by war
By Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim
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
In this April 30, 2020, photo, Palestinian engineer Raed Nakhal from Palestine Children Relief Fund, right, and engineer Abdullah Dewik, check the Watergen machine that generates safe drinking water from air on the roof of al-Rantisi pediatric hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 6, 2024, 9:14 pm
Israelis, Palestinians to launch joint bid to bring humanitarian aid to post-war Gaza
Damour for Community Development in Gaza and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies form group of companies aiming to provide off-grid services to ravaged territory
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
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: A scientist inspects water in a creek (kosmos111 via iStock by Getty Images)
November 1, 2020, 4:21 pm
Israeli experts make global stink over coronavirus surviving in treated sewage
Researchers issue call for sewage plants worldwide to disinfect wastewater, lest pumping it into natural water sources lead to infections among animals or humans
By Nathan Jeffay
Two foxes peer out of the vegetation in the Jerusalem area, May 27, 2020. (Dudu Ben Or, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 8, 2020, 1:17 am
Israel slips to 29th worldwide in biennial environmental performance index
Nation still ranks fairly well in Yale University report, but scores particularly badly on biodiversity and habitat
By Sue Surkes
Clive Lipchin in front of a pilot off-grid sewage treatment unit in the Bedouin village of Umm Batin, near Beersheba in the Negev. (Courtesy, Arava Institute)
June 1, 2020, 10:24 am
First off-grid wastewater treatment unit in Bedouin village piloted
Solar-operated unit created at Arava Institute could bring public health benefits to the south of Israel as well as developing countries, where raw sewage kills 1.7 million yearly
By Sue Surkes
Untreated sewage flowing in the Kidron Stream in the Judean Desert following several days of heavy rain, November 27, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 5, 2020, 5:42 am
Could wastewater carry coronavirus? Expert says research needed urgently
Dror Avisar, head of Tel Aviv University’s Water Research Center, says that nobody knows what dangers COVID-19 might pose in streams, groundwater, beaches
By Sue Surkes
Wastewater at the Yad Hanna Wastewater Treatment Plant bloodied by the detritus from slaughterhouses in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank city of Tulkarem, April 14, 2020. (Courtesy, Alon Heyman)
April 14, 2020, 10:19 pm
Stream runs red with blood as abattoir waste conjures up biblical plague
As demand for chicken meat peaks for Passover and Ramadan, West Bank effluent drains into tributary of Israel’s Alexander River, highlighting cross-boundary pollution problem
By Sue Surkes
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