Water supply from Lake Tiberias to resume Saturday morning
19/9/08
A four-day stoppage in the supply of water to the Kingdom from Lake Tiberias, which started last Tuesday, is scheduled to end Saturday morning with the resumption of water pumping at the lake, a source at the ministry said on Thursday.Israeli authorities have informed the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of the stoppage, a source at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation said Thursday, adding that Israel will supply the Kingdom with the 720,000 cubic metres of water due to be allocated during the four-day period over the next few weeks. The reported reason behind the break in water supply is poor precipitation during the most recent rainy season, which affected Lake Tiberias’s water level, according to the ministry. Currently, the lake’s water level is close to the “red line”, a point at which pumping must be stopped.
See: http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=10846; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Jordan
Tags: Environment, Galilee, Israel, Jordan