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Red Sea-Dead Sea link feasible, World Bank says
Posted by Reuters: Ari Rabinovitch on January 17th, 2013
Reuters: It is possible to use the Red Sea to replenish the shrinking Dead Sea, the World Bank has determined after years of studying whether such a connecting lifeline could work.
The idea of linking the two bodies of water has been around for more than a century, but the project took on a new urgency when the shore of the Dead Sea was found to be receding at a rate of more than one meter (3.3 feet) every year.
A World Bank feasibility report published this month said an underground pipeline would...
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Israel plans to revive ailing Jordan river
Posted by Reuters: Ari Rabinovitch on July 19th, 2012
Reuters: The River Jordan is neither deep nor wide these days.
The Biblical river, which has inspired countless spirituals and folk songs, is just a narrow stream in many parts - polluted and stagnant. But that's about to change.
Thanks to desalination and wastewater recycling, there is more fresh water to go around and the Jordan will slowly be returned to its former glory.
From a dusty overlook in 40 degree (104 degree farenheit) heat, Ramon Ben Ari, head of Israel's Southern Jordan Drainage Authority,...
Arid Israel recycles waste water on grand scale
Posted by Reuters: Ari Rabinovitch on November 14th, 2010
Reuters: Arid Israel recycles waste water on grand scale
* Israel is world leader in water recycling
* Water technologies a large export market
Thirty years ago, Israeli farmers faced a daunting choice -- find a new water source or go under. Their solution was waste water recycling. Now climate change is presenting other nations with a similar choice.
With increased interest worldwide, Israel is marketing its waste water reuse technologies and has developed a billion-dollar industry by sharing...