Comments on: Searching For A Clean Stream In Israel, Or Anywhere

By: James Murray-White

James Murray-White — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:51:52 +0000

Yes Maurice, I’ve lived here in Jerusalem for 4 years, and have toured the Golan.
I agree that the Syrians may have caused environmental damage there, and the Lebanese on the border there, and with Jordan, Egypt, etc etc, and the British, and the Turks….but what matters now is who does what now, and how we here at GP try to channel environmental awareness and media to find solutions, co-operatively, not to point fingers & cast the blame.

Lets hope all the rivers & streams of the Holy Land will soon be full of fish & swimmable (& be clean enough to be baptised in, or whatever….), B’srat Hashem!

By: Maurice

Maurice — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:53:31 +0000

Hi James,

Regarding your comment about Syria, do you live here in Israel; or if not, have you ever visited here – especially touring the Golan Heights? If not, you should. Then you would see what is going on there.

Regarding the Thames, I agree that more efforts need to be done in Israel to clean up out small streams like the Jordan and the others I mentioned in the article. I’m not going ot get into what has made many of them so polluted, but I can say that its a combination of factors, including wholesale dumping of both industrial wastes and raw sewage into them. I would also like to see many of these streams full of fish again.

By: James Murray-White

James Murray-White — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:31:53 +0000

Maurice – there’s not much to be gained from just bashing the Syrian’s in a ‘what if’ scenario…..
also, London’s famous River Thames has now been cleaned up after a hundred years of Industrial (& non-Industrial) pollution, that while I wouldn’t fancy swimming in it (though people do), it is now full of fish again. Next time you’re in the Smoke, stand on any of London’s bridges and marvel at what we can do, when we put our minds to it, to reverse environmental damage……

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:21:36 +0000

Surprisingly, or maybe not because they are Swiss after all, most if not all the streams in Swizterland are swimmable. Even the large ones running through cities like Zurich and Basel; Fountains in villages taking water from springs and wells very drinkable.

By: greenprophet

greenprophet — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:16:28 +0000

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