Israel Says Galilee Water Needs Cut by Rain, Desalination
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Israel’s Water Authority has been able to reduce the amount of water pumped from the nation’s main source, the Sea of Galilee, by more than half due to above-average rain and higher use of desalination plants.
“There has been a significant drop, we are now pumping less than half the multi-year average,” spokesman Uri Schor said in a phone interview. About 160 million cubic meters (42.3 billion gallons) of water were pumped last year from the northern Israel lake compared with as much as 360 million cubic meters the past two to three decades, he said yesterday.