Israel to be 1st in world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake, the GalileeEarly next year, Israel is set to become the first country i...

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Israel to be 1st in world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake, the GalileeEarly next year, Israel is set to become the first country i...
Israel to be 1st in world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake, the Galilee

Early next year, Israel is set to become the first country in the world to channel desalinated water into a natural lake — the Sea of Galilee.

One of the lowest-lying bodies of water on Earth, the Sea of Galilee is Israel’s largest freshwater lake and its emergency water store.

The national water company, Mekorot, plans to complete construction of a 13-kilometer (8-mile) underground pipe by the end of this year, to be followed by weeks of tests before it goes into operation around the end of the first quarter of 2023.

The pipe will connect the lake to infrastructure that in turn links into five desalination plants on the Mediterranean coast.

The water will enter the lake via the Zalmon stream, which drains into the Sea of Galilee near Kibbutz Ginosar on the northwestern shore.

Tests carried out by scientists indicate that the project will not have any significant deleterious effect on ecosystems, and will even help them by keeping water levels stable.

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  1. In this project, the destructive effects of ecology and environment are observed. By transferring fresh water to salt water or vice versa, it affects the ecosystem of sea creatures. Previously, we had proposed such a proposal to transfer the water of a relatively salty lake to a saltier one, and we faced problems such as the increase and decrease of water anions and cations in the second lake, for which we found the right solution. But in your proposed project, this problem has not been solved yet, so it cannot be said that you are the first country to transfer salt sea water to fresh water lake. Because we had already examined this idea and thought about it.