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Fast Forward Israeli Agriculture Minister Prays For Rain At Western Wall To Relieve Drought
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – With technology coming up short, Israel’s agriculture minister sought an unconventional solution on Thursday to end the country’s water shortage – rallying a few thousand worshippers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to pray for rain. Four years of heavy drought have overtaxed Israel’s unmatched array of desalination and wastewater treatment plants, choking its…
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Fast Forward Uganda’s Jews Are Down To One Meal A Day Amid Drought
(JTA) — Uganda’s 2,000 Jews have long maintained a modest existence. They live in the east of the country in a hilly, rural area that lacks paved roads, consistent electricity and running water. But this year, the situation for Uganda’s Jewish community, called the Abayudaya, has worsened. Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East are…
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Opinion Trump Acts Like A Political Pro On Climate Change — And That Should Scare Us
There’s a strange, largely unnoticed inconsistency in the Trump administration’s approach to making and remaking policy. Don’t get me wrong — inconsistency has been the rule at nearly every juncture in the chaotic first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. From health care to immigration, from NATO to Australia to the Middle East, measures have been…
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Fast Forward Sea Of Galilee Hits Lowest Level In Century As Drought Bites
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Sea of Galilee is at its lowest level in a century after northern Israel experienced the driest February ever recorded. The Israel Water Authority said Tuesday that the large freshwater lake, also known as Lake Kinneret, is 20 centimeters below the line experts consider acceptable for water quality. The sea received only 10…
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Fast Forward 14-Year Israel Drought Was Worst in 900 Years
A recent 14-year dry spell in the Middle East was the worst drought in the past 900 years, according to a new NASA study. The American space agency’s researchers examined records of rings of trees in several Mediterranean countries to determine patterns of dry and wet years across a span of nine centuries. In the…
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The Schmooze William Shatner Wants To Raise $30 Billion To Build a Water Pipeline
William Shatner in full Captain Kirk mode is looking to marshal a crew for a project with an astronomical budget to deal with California’s drought problems, although some might call it a pipe dream. The “Star Trek” star has told Yahoo! Tech journalist David Pogue he intends to start a crowdsource campaign on Kickstarter.com to…
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Fast Forward Can Israeli Ingenuity Solve California’s Drought Woes?
California Governor Jerry Brown told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he hoped Israeli water technology could help his state deal with a devastating drought. Netanyahu, on a visit to Silicon Valley, and Brown signed a memorandum of understanding for research and development cooperation in various technological fields, including water conservation. “Israel has demonstrated…
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