On All the Water in Israel: Interviews With Government, Analysts and Researchers

Israel is famous for fooling the world into thinking that it is a water-efficient country. It isn't. The SFG might consider some of the ideas put forward that I have come across:-raise the domestic and commercial prices of water. Israel has subsidized the cost of water and artificially suppressed the cost. The result has been massive over-consumption that has no relationship to the real supply/demand situation. Yes, you may have to pay subsidies to weaker economic sectors so they are not badly affected, but if you don't have a vast water supply, you simply can't keep selling your existing supply at bargain rates.-ban the growing of water-intensive crops. Despite the water shortage and high cost of production, Israel still grows cotton – a water intensive crop that has to be subsidized in order to compete on world markets. Why? Because Israeli part of the agriculture industry invested tens of millions of dollars in cotton producing equipment in the 20th century, and they don't want to lose all that investment. So as a result, we use water we don't have to grow cotton that we can't sell, in order to keep a few hundred farmers in business.-introduce legislation to reward citizens and businesses that use gray water. Israelis use fresh, expensive drinking water to flush their toilets. The government should not just allow a tax write off, but should pay a bonus to anybody who uses gray water to flush their toilets. This would be cheaper than building an energy-intensive desalination plant.-pay the country to install water saving equipment. Water taps in the country waste vast amounts of water because too much volume comes out. There are cheap and easy solutions on the market that aren't being used. Reward people who install the solutions.-Pay the country to install artificial grass instead of real grass. It's the same principal as paying tax rebates with a bonus for people to install and use gray water equipment. If you don't have grass, you don't have to irrigate it. If the rains do return and the water tables and Sea of Galilee refill, then sure, people can start to water grass when that happens. Until then, however, watering lawns should be banned.-Pay people to install dew and fog water collection devices using tax rebates with cash bonuses. These are generally static devices that sit there and produce water. Israel has many foggy areas and that fog can be harvested. As well, the Jewish religion recognizes the importance of dew for life, and there are daily prayers for dew and rain that are an integral part of of Judaism.

Israel is famous for fooling the world into thinking that it is a water-efficient country. It isn't. The SFG might consider some of the ideas put forward that I have come across:-raise the domestic and commercial prices of water. Israel has subsidized the cost of water and artificially suppressed the cost. The result has been massive over-consumption that has no relationship to the real supply/demand situation. Yes, you may have to pay subsidies to weaker economic sectors so they are not badly affected, but if you don't have a vast water supply, you simply can't keep selling your existing supply at bargain rates.-ban the growing of water-intensive crops. Despite the water shortage and high cost of production, Israel still grows cotton – a water intensive crop that has to be subsidized in order to compete on world markets. Why? Because Israeli part of the agriculture industry invested tens of millions of dollars in cotton producing equipment in the 20th century, and they don't want to lose all that investment. So as a result, we use water we don't have to grow cotton that we can't sell, in order to keep a few hundred farmers in business.-introduce legislation to reward citizens and businesses that use gray water. Israelis use fresh, expensive drinking water to flush their toilets. The government should not just allow a tax write off, but should pay a bonus to anybody who uses gray water to flush their toilets. This would be cheaper than building an energy-intensive desalination plant.-pay the country to install water saving equipment. Water taps in the country waste vast amounts of water because too much volume comes out. There are cheap and easy solutions on the market that aren't being used. Reward people who install the solutions.-Pay the country to install artificial grass instead of real grass. It's the same principal as paying tax rebates with a bonus for people to install and use gray water equipment. If you don't have grass, you don't have to irrigate it. If the rains do return and the water tables and Sea of Galilee refill, then sure, people can start to water grass when that happens. Until then, however, watering lawns should be banned.-Pay people to install dew and fog water collection devices using tax rebates with cash bonuses. These are generally static devices that sit there and produce water. Israel has many foggy areas and that fog can be harvested. As well, the Jewish religion recognizes the importance of dew for life, and there are daily prayers for dew and rain that are an integral part of of Judaism.

as i know israel has very serious system of cleaning of water. and as i know israel is gonna provide cleaned water to our neighbors-so we will have part of their water too and they will get water of much higher quality.