Water authority israel

Water sector 'fully stable' following assessment, reservoirs to be filled over weekend

The announcement follows shutdowns at Israel's desalination plants amid high seawater turbidity, with plants in Ashkelon and Ashdod still inoperative as of Friday.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Water discharging from a desalination plant into the Zalmon River and into the Sea of Galilee, March 4, 2026.
Water discharging from a desalination plant into the Zalmon River and into the Sea of Galilee, March 4, 2026.

Beyond missiles: Why Israel’s civilian infrastructure needs stronger defenses - editorial

Israel’s strength is measured not only by whether it can strike its enemies or intercept their weapons, but by whether ordinary life can continue under pressure.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Infrastructure works along the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee as the Water Authority and the national water company Mekorot prepare to increase the flow of desalinated water pumped from desalination plants in Ashkelon and Rishon Lezion into the lake, northern Israel, February 27, 2026.

Israeli agriculture at risk ahead of High Holy Days as desalination systems remain nonfunctional

The Water Authority and the Energy and Infrastructure Ministry said Tuesday morning that after the facilities operated overnight, most were shut down again after seawater turbidity rose.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Infrastructure works along the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee as the Water Authority and the national water company Mekorot prepare to increase the flow of desalinated water pumped from desalination plants in Ashkelon and Rishon Lezion into the lake, northern Israel, February 27, 2026.

Water restrictions continue into second day as most Israeli desalination plants shut down again

In areas experiencing localized supply problems, the scope of water use will be reduced as needed, while the Water Authority's operations center addresses individual disruptions.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, HODAYA RAN

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.

JUNE 28, 2016ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

JUNE 13, 2016ByMICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN
BENEATH KFAR SABA’S Yarok neighborhood the local hybrid biofilter quietly purifies the town’s groundwater.

הַתְפָּלַת מַיִם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל

Water desalination in Israel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015ByJPOST IVRIT STAFF
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.

MAY 11, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON, SHARON UDASIN
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.

MARCH 1, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
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.

FEBRUARY 27, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
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

Water prices to drop 10% in January

Infrastructure Minister Silvan Shalom vows to work for further reductions, but prices will still be double what they were in 2009.

DECEMBER 11, 2014ByNIV ELIS
Tap water [illustrative]

Bennett announces Water City for Israeli technologies in Shougang, China

Economy Ministry trade attaches in China have been working with Chinese authorities to incorporate Israeli technologies into the country’s expansive water network.

NOVEMBER 24, 2014BySHARON UDASIN
Naftali Bennett

Scientists identify bacterial culture to treat polluted Kishon sediment

Scientists involved in project, which is part of the Kishon River rehabilitation program, had been facing difficulties cultivating a fitting bacterial culture due to high salinity of the waterway.

NOVEMBER 23, 2014BySHARON UDASIN
Kishon River drainage

Water corporations to be forbidden from disconnecting in-debt customers

"Beginning in 2015, there will be no water disconnections in the State of Israel."

NOVEMBER 17, 2014BySHARON UDASIN
Tap water [illustrative]