Water problems of Israel?

Question

Israel is arid. But why? Why has this country water problems?

Answer 1

Israels water suplying  companys are not public and the water prices are far up!many people cant afford paying the water bills.

Answer 2

water is clean there... what you on about?

Answer 3

Israel has just about denuded the River Jordan.

Since the late 1970s Israel has been effectively stealing Lebanese water supplies.

Under the guise of military operations against Palestinian Terrorists in Lebanon, Israel bored a series of horizontal water bores under the Shouf Mountain Range. Whilst the location of bore heads are a closely guarded secret, it is generally assumed that they are secreted on the previously Christian Farmsteads, located at the Southern access to the Bekaah Valley.

This is believed to have been the pretext for evicting the Christian Farmers and the incarceration of their families in Concentration Camps. It took 7 years, until 1985, for the UN to persuade the Israelis to release these unforunates! The sad upshot of this outrage is that HALF the Mujahdeen (Volunteer Fighters) in SOuth Lebanon, are now CHRISTIAN!!!!!!

The recent war between Israel and Lebanon was exacerbated by Israel's need to bore more water points, to feed her burgeoning use of water.

The continuance of the conflict bewteen Israel and her neighbours has a much to do with her need for water supplies as the traditional Palestinian clearances.

Answer 4

Because its a Desert!

Answer 5

the state of Israel has a little water, It has the river Jordan, which flows from the Sea of Gallilee (down to the Dead sea,) This relies on rainfall and melt water to top it up. It is short circuited by a huge tunnel that carries water from the Jordan mouth to the Negev( amongst other places), being Israeli it is a huge enterprise and desgned and built by them. so the once fairly lively Jordan is now a stream.

Israel collected deserts, she took Sinai and opened up the Negev, she farmed areas that the indigenous Arabs knew were just salt marshes and made them fertile. That takes water, lots of it. So they de-salinate a lot, they are very good at it, (so much so that lots of Arab countries use their systems they may be fundamentalist Muslim, but not stupid) The Dead sea area has always had agriculture, (it is the site of the oldest cities in the world,) taking water out of the salty sea, of course makes it saltier, but they manage.As do theJordanians just next door.

It is a country with many small rivers, but an ability to make the most of things. The hot summers are followed by cold winters allowing some precipitation on the Mountains ( Golan Heights etc) and having the Med right along your one border isnt bad news