5-year drought raises questions over Israel's water strategy
Saturday, August 4, 2018 - 04:44
in Earth & Climate
For years, public service announcements warned Israelis to save water: Take shorter showers. Plant resilient gardens. Conserve. Then Israel invested heavily in desalination technology and professed to have solved the problem by tapping into the abundant waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The once ubiquitous conservation warnings vanished.