Water authority israel

Israel’s freshwater balancing act: The Kinneret under strain

Intensive management has saved the Kinneret from crisis, but rising salinity and ecological change pose growing risks

An aerial view of the Kinneret. To the casual observer, the lake, also known as the Sea of Galilee, appears to be a rare environmental success story in an era of climate uncertainty.
Israelis enjoy at the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, during the Sukkot holiday, on October 13, 2025.

Lake Kinneret reaches dangerously low water levels as Israeli authorities decide to pump in water

 The Ginosar shore.

Driest winter on record: Lake Kinneret sees rare February drop in water level

 An illustrative image of rainfall as seen from the window of a vehicle.

Current winter is one of the most arid in recent years, data shows


UN official: Israeli-Palestinian water talks important for two-state solution

Palestinians and Israelis agreed Sunday to Joint Water Committee activities after a six-year freeze, hoping to update the area's aging infrastructure.

MAJ.-GEN. YOAV (POLY) MORDECHAI (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh after agreeing to renew activities of the Joint Water Committee.

Israel’s greatest victory?

The emphasis on water – and the talk about making the desert bloom – accelerated after independence in May 1948.

An Israeli desalination plant.

Water scarce West Bank to receive short-term boost in supply

The new "Ariel 1" well, drilled by the Mekorot national water company near the city of Ariel, will provide an additional 4,500 cubic meters of water daily to the entire population of the West Bank.

Water desalination in Israel

UK launches Mideast effort to tackle water issues

The programs follow “unprecedented” UK-Israeli scientific cooperation, including the biggest bilateral science conference in April.

ROBIN GRIMES

Settlers: 60,000 of our people suffering from water shortages

“For the last five years we have been turning to the Water Authority, warning that the infrastructure cannot handle the population growth in Samaria,” Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

Israel opens its first ‘water sensitivity center’

In Kfar Saba’s Hayarok neighborhood, for example, drainpipes on the street funnel water underneath the fairly new neighborhood to a park at the bottom of a hill.

BENEATH KFAR SABA’S Yarok neighborhood the local hybrid biofilter quietly purifies the town’s groundwater.

הַתְפָּלַת מַיִם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל

Water desalination in Israel

Water desalination in Israel

Is the regional water crisis a bigger problem than Islamic State?

Daniel Pipes to ‘Post’: Only Israel, with its cutting-edge scientific prowess, can offer assistance to the region.

Palestinian children in Gaza fetch water from a container

Tiberias wastewater heads to new treatment plant, curbing raw sewage flow in Jordan River

Conveyance of the sewage by means of the new pipeline was part of a NIS 40m. scheme.

People rafting in a river (illustrated photo)

Israel, Jordan sign historic plan to save Dead Sea

The agreement, worth some $800 million, is the result of a memorandum of understanding signed among Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian officials on December 9, 2013, in Washington.

NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE, Energy, and Water Minister Silvan Shalom (left) and his Jordanian counterpart, Water and Irrigation Minister Hazim el-Naser, display the agreement yesterday after signing on the eastern side of the Dead Sea