How Israel’s water and agricultural technologies don’t even work for Israel “California I hear has a big water problem. We in Israel don’t have a water problem. We use technology to solve it…” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to California Governor Jerry Brown in March 2014. “If you were planning […]
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Desalination: more salt than Lot’s wife “Israel leads the world in water recycling and desalination. We’ll share our technology with India and provide clean water for millions.” Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter, 07.06.2017 “In time, it’s going to become impossible to use desalination in a way that makes economic sense. The […]
Last Updated: 10.14.2014 State Mandated Water Poverty “Today the Golden People of California have elected to adopt Israel’s water model. Now, in order for this thing to work, half of you will get 15 percent of your water. We Golden People will get 85 percent of your water, plus we […]
Israel’s only major freshwater lake may disappear Last updated October 14, 2018. “Set sail on the beautiful Sea of Galilee with an inspirational time of praise and worship.” from a brochure for ‘Christians United for Israel’ founder John Hagee’s 2018 tour of the Jewish state. “The Kinneret will never go […]
The lower Jordan river is a wreck “The river one hundred twenty feet wide and six feet deep, gravelly bottom; current five knots.” W.F. Lynch, USN, Commander of the Jordan River Expedition, in 1848. “All our lives we had studied and sung about this stream so we visualized a […]
Sewage Quiz and nowhere to go “…with clear waters and action packed beaches, each one of Tel Aviv’s 16 beaches has its own style and attracts certain personalities.” Israeli Ministry of Tourism website “But you cannot have clean water if people are still defecating in the river.” The visionary […]
Last updated 10.15.2018 Toxic Streams and disappearing groundwater “…and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.” Kings 18. Kishon: If Elijah was around today he might just tell the Israelites to kill the 450 Ba’al prophets by tossing them into the Kishon. Visualize a waterway […]
Last updated 10.18.2018 “It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. ““The mountainsides were cut in terraces, many of them but a […]
Recognition 9: The ‘Toxic Tsunami’ and Other Disasters Petroleum contamination: Chronic leaks and spills in Israel “… we discovered a layer of gasoline near a gas station in the Tel Aviv area that was four meters (13 feet) deep in the ground water.” Barach Weber, Tel Aviv District Director, Environmental […]
Behind a curtain of wine, war, and industrial tourism, Israel is losing a pyrrhic population race with the more fertile Arabs. “We say to the Jews, to our brothers and sisters, Israel is your home and that of every Jew. Israel is waiting for you with open arms.” Benjamin Netanyahu, […]
Last updated 10.17.2018 Holy Water: Old West meets Middle East “Thou shall inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward, conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shall safeguard the fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from drying up, thy forests from desolation.” American ‘Father of […]
Recognition 12: Israel is a cautionary tale Last updated October 31, 2018 “There are no unsacred places; There are only sacred places and desecrated places .” Wendell Berry, from his poem, ‘How to be a poet (to remind myself).’ Israel is a fine example of what trouble humans can get […]