The Israel Galilei Sea suffered a drought, and the government planned

【Source: Nine Pai News】

Galley Sea is the largest freshwater lake in Israel and the largest natural freshwater source of Israel. Due to decreased precipitation and increased temperatures, the lake surface shrinks.

According to CNN, the Israeli government proposed a solution: it is planned to pump water from the Mediterranean, remove salt and transport it to the Cali Sea.

Israel has rich experience in seawater desalination. As a country with a shortage of water resources, for more than two decades, it has been extracted from the Mediterranean to remove salt to make it drinking water. The five seawater desalination plants along the coast provided almost all tap water for the country's 9.2 million people.

Galilee Sea/CNN

The new project proposed by the government is planned to pump water with a 1.6 -meter -wide pipeline, and injects in the back to the stream of the Cali Sea. When I heard this project for the first time, Nuo An, the chief engineer of the Israeli National Water Group, believes that this is a strange idea, "but soon, we understand its value." This will help agricultural development in more regions, and as well as Relationship with neighboring Jordan.

Israel and Jordan have signed a long -term agreement to sell tens of millions of cubic meters of water to Jordan each year. In 2021, the two countries signed a new agreement, and Jordan obtained 200 million square meters of diluted water from Israel each year -about 20%of Jordan's water demand -in exchange for solar energy to help Power grid for Israel.

Noon said that in a few months, the new pipeline cost of $ 264 million is expected to be put into use, and it will be able to transport 120 million square meters of water each year, but it will only transport water to the lake when necessary.

"The uniqueness of this project lies in flexibility." He said, "We can basically take water in the place where there is water and transfer water to the place where there is.

Under the climate crisis, the water level of Galilei reached the lowest level of history, which made the Israeli Ministry of Water Affairs have to intervene, but this incident has never been done before. Scientist Gidie said that in addition to removing salt, seawater and freshwater are also different in other ingredients.

"When you mixing water with natural water, you may have an impact on creatures." Gidie said, "New species may be produced." But so far, the experiment shows that "mixed water" will not have existing species to existing species. It has an impact, which helps the lake to fight climate change.

Compared to letting the lake disappear, he believes that the risk of introducing water is "worthy of bearing."

Jiupai journalist Li Muxi

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