Reverse water carrier launched to refill Kinneret

Mekorot Israel Nationwide Drinking water Co. and the Israel Drinking water Authority right now released the “Reverse Water Carrier” challenge in the north. The challenge will allow for desalinated h2o from the Mediterranean Sea to flow inland to Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). The aim of the undertaking, which has been established up at a price of NIS 1 billion, is to retain the degree of the Kinneret in dry and reduced rainfall a long time.

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Most of the drinking water, which nowadays flows out of the taps in Israeli residences arrives from desalination crops and not from the Kinneret, but the amount of the Kinneret is essential as the country’s crisis reservoir for drinking water, as nicely as in ecological conditions.

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In addition, even through drought a long time, Israel has ongoing to provide water from the Kinneret to Jordan, as aspect of the peace arrangement involving the two nations. A short while ago, Israel agreed to double the amount of h2o it supplies to Jordan to about 100 million cubic meters yearly, creating the need to retain Kinneret’s degree even much more vital.

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A succession of drought a long time

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The idea of channeling desalinated seawater to the north, reversing the circulation in the nationwide provider, was conceived in current years subsequent a collection of drought decades. Between 2013 and 2018, the degree of the Kinneret dropped continuously until eventually it arrived at the “black line” – 213 meters beneath sea amount – the amount from which pumping h2o for the demands of the financial state was halted. These days the Sea of Galilee is fuller, after numerous wet winters, with the stage almost 250 centimeters higher than the “black line,” – about 170 centimeters under remaining whole. Consequently, according to expert sources, there is no quick will need to work the project and stream drinking water back into the Kinneret.

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Function on the project commenced 4 many years in the past at the greatest of then Minister of Nationwide Infrastructures, Power and Drinking water Assets Yuval Steinitz. The project will permit the maximum streaming of 120 million cubic meters of drinking water again into the Kinneret. Right after the cupboard agreed to advertise the undertaking, Mekorot’s implementation arm EMS commenced doing the job on the plan.

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The 1st stage of the undertaking included a 30 kilometer pipeline from the Eshkol pumping station around Nahal Zalmon. In the second phase of the project, which will be finished in the coming decades, four pumping stations and ponds will be built in the Rosh Ha’ayin region, which alongside one another will empower the conveyance of excess h2o from new desalination crops, boreholes and other resources to the north, also alongside the current national water carrier.

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“Out of the Box solutions

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Israel H2o Authority director Yehezkel Lifshitz reported, “The job we have released nowadays proves that Israel is leading in innovative imagining and a resourceful setting up approach to working with the results of local climate modify, even though guaranteeing a sustainable drinking water source, safeguarding Israel’s pure sources and sustaining the Kinneret as a strategic buffer for the State of Israel.”

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Mekorot CEO Amit Lang additional, “The weather crisis and worldwide warming have specified increase to out of the box alternatives, although the venture inaugurated right now is of operational and strategic significance, and one that will allow us to maintain the levels in the national lake, as perfectly as the means to retain a regular move of h2o to neighboring international locations.”

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Published by Globes, Israel organization news – en.globes.co.il – on December 27, 2022.

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