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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

water supply

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani speaks to the press at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2024. (Drew Angerer/AFP)
March 9, 2025, 4:23 pm
Attack on Iran’s atomic sites would contaminate Gulf water supply, Qatar PM says
Gulf leader warns against ‘any kind of military step’ after Trump threatens strike on Islamic Republic’s nuclear program should its leaders spurn negotiations
By Agencies
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
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
This undated photo shows Palestinian Water Authority workers repairing the Gazan side of a pipeline leading water from Israel during the country's war with Hamas. (Courtesy)
June 5, 2024, 6:09 pm
How Israel worked to renew Gaza’s water supply amid the war, with help from locals
Despite ministers’ early bravado and international accusations, Jerusalem went to great lengths to fix enclave’s ‘screwed-up’ infrastructure after October 7 damage, say officials
By Aviv Lavie
Palestinians collect water from a water tap, amid drinking water shortages, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
October 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Israel says it is restarting water supply to southern Gaza Strip
Energy Minister Israel Katz says decision made in conversation between Netanyahu and Biden, will help push civilian population southward
By Amy Spiro, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Nina Gordon-Kirsch hikes near Salt Springs in California on July 14, 2022. (Courtesy/ Sky Richards)
October 16, 2022, 2:46 am
Thirsty to know where her water comes from, CA Jewish activist hikes to its source
Over 33 days, Nina Gordon-Kirsch walked 240 miles from her California home to the Highland Lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Now she’s releasing a documentary about her journey
By Melanie Lidman
Palestinians at the beach in Rafah, in the Southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2022. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 10, 2022, 3:23 pm
Gaza beaches made safe for swimming with help of environmental peace group
Israel director of EcoPeace says the Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian organization’s work on sewage treatment has improved water quality in both the enclave and nearby Israeli beaches
By Sara Serfaty
A picture taken on July 11, 2021, shows a pipe system used to transfer water from Israel to Jordan by Mekorot, Israel's national water company, near Kibbutz Masada by the border with Jordan (background), south of the Sea of Galilee, or Lake Tiberias, one of the main water sources in Israel. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
August 31, 2021, 9:05 am
Israel-Jordan ties boosted by rare alignment in interests on water, energy
Amman and Jerusalem could be poised for an unprecedented boom in cooperation amid Amman’s drought concerns, Jerusalem’s need for solar power
By Ben Simon
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 12, 2021, 9:09 pm
Bashing water deal, Netanyahu accuses Jordan of helping bolster Iran
Opposition leader claims that supplying additional water to Amman enables it to provide oil to Iran via a never-built pipeline, thus bolstering Tehran’s nuclear program
By Amy Spiro
A worker at the Eshkol Water Filtration Plant in Northern Israel, operated by Israel's National Water Company Mekorot (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 17, 2020, 1:18 am
Cyber attacks again hit Israel’s water system, shutting agricultural pumps
Incident follows more serious April attack attributed to Iran that officials said could have poisoned hundreds with chlorine
By ToI Staff
In this April, 24, 2020, photo, people wait to fetch water from a row of communal taps that the group Doctors Without Borders provided in a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
May 23, 2020, 1:16 pm
Virus spread feared where water is scarce around the world
Charity says 3 billion people around the world have nowhere at home to wash hands with soap and clean water, increasing risk of coronavirus outbreaks
By FARAI MUTSAKA
Girls in Bukahara, Uzbekistan, try out the technology of Israeli company Watergen, which makes drinking water out of air. (Youtube screenshot)
November 1, 2019, 4:44 pm
Israeli company that makes water out of thin air signs deal with Uzbekistan
Dry, landlocked Central Asian nation to buy thousands of Watergen atmospheric water generators in deal likely worth several million dollars
By Sue Surkes
A pleasure boat carrying tourists and locals sails in the Nile River at sunset in Aswan, Egypt, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)
October 22, 2019, 2:13 pm
Egyptian media urges military action against Ethiopia as Nile talks break down
Addis Ababa rejects Cairo’s offers, moves on with construction of massive dam that could limit water supply; pro-Sissi pundits call for invasion similar to 1973 war with Israel
By Samy Magdy
Victor Weis
June 13, 2018, 3:48 pm
Victor Weis
How crowded is too crowded for Israel?
The challenge of population growth needs a new solution: sustainability
Howard Feldman
February 4, 2018, 2:15 pm
Howard Feldman
Blame BDS for the Cape Town water crisis
For the first time, a major city is about to run out of water — for no good reason whatsoever
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