Post by Jake Kratovil on Jan 5, 2010 10:50:21 GMT -5
Residents in the Kibbutzim and Moshavim regions of Israel awoke this morning to find themselves without running water. Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu appeared in the early hours of the morning to give a startling announcement that the Nablus-Gilboa Aquifer in the northern West Bank has unexpectedly run dry, leaving thousands of settlers and farmers without water, all during the middle of one of Israel’s worst droughts in history.
The aquifer in question originally supplied the region with 115 million cubic meters of water a year. Local NGO’s in state are already preparing for the worst, with uncontrolled rioting at the top of their concerns.
The aquifer in question originally supplied the region with 115 million cubic meters of water a year. Local NGO’s in state are already preparing for the worst, with uncontrolled rioting at the top of their concerns.