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05/05/2008: "Israel facing 'unprecedented' drought"

The Sea of Galilee, Israel's main source of fresh water, is dropping rapidly and could reach the dreaded "black line" - below which it is impossible to pump out any more water - in just three months.

According to experts cited in The Jerusalem Post Sunday, this past well-below average winter rainfall, which followed several similarly dry years, and is being aggravated by successive heat waves already experienced this year, is threatening the country with the worst water shortage it has ever known.

While Israel is building desalination plants to make sea water palatable, progress on these is painfully slow when seen against the rapidly-growing water need.

[ Human materialistic greed has destabililized the planet's climate. And Nature is taking revenge. Jahweh just can't compete. ]

http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2428