Israeli lawmaker makes a splash — with water fight

Israeli politicians often pour cold water on each other's ideas, but rarely on each other.

Amnesty: Israel withholds water from Palestinians

Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the West Bank, depriving local Palestinians of their fair share.

Palestinians call on Israel to rethink water deal

West Bank Palestinians are suffering a serious water shortage this year as a severe drought exacerbates supply problems, the head of the Palestinian Water Authority said Sunday.

When Israel was founded 64 years ago, it was a barren country with no natural resources, little water, and more than half of its land mass desert. The only thing the new country had going for it was the natural creativity of its people.   More than six decades later, the …

Ever since Israel occupied the Golan Heights over forty years ago, Damascus has been eager to get it back. In 1991 Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad demanded that Israel withdraw to the shores of the Sea of Galilee. However, rounds of talks have led to nothing. If power  …

A pair of Netanya high school pupils who developed a system using solar rays to disinfect and clean water supplies so they are suitable for drinking won the Intel-Israel 15th Annual Young Scientists Competition on Tuesday. Avishai Katko and Maya Braun of Sharett High School foun …

As water gushes through the labyrinthine infrastructure of the London water supply system, an ageing pipe creaks, whines noisily, and finally bursts. Within seconds, an alert starts flashing on a remote computer in the tiny office of Takadu - an Israeli start-up in Tel Aviv. …

A business and academic delegation from the seventh largest city in the United States went home from Israel with two major collaborative agreements in hand -- one in diabetes research and the other in water technology. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro led the five-day summer …

Technion Prof. Mark Talesnick of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Prof. Bernard Amadei of the University of Colorado discuss Engineers Without Borders and Technion's participation in this exciting international initiative.

While everyone's on holiday: Ghosts of the past, crises of the present and warnings for the future

From the distant and near past   The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode.

A senior Jordanian official says the Hashemite kingdom will vote against Palestinian statehood bid scheduled to be put before the UN General Assembly in September.

"It is difficult to understand the reasoning behind the destruction of basic rain water collection systems, some of them very old, which serve marginalised rural and herder Palestinian communities where water is already scarce and where drought is an ever-present threat," said Ma …

"Following a major earthquake in Taiwan in 2009, humanitarian aid workers from Israel brought along locally made WaterSheer products to ensure a steady stream of potable water for the survivors and to transport drinking water quickly to where it was needed most.

"Two scientists, one from Israel and one from Nablus in the Palestinian Authority are working together to improve water purification for the region and beyond.

Israel's border police force insisted in a statement on Thursday that video of a 5-year-old Palestinian boy reacting with dismay to the arrest of his father this week in the West Bank, which has been broadcast internationally, was staged.

"The highly regarded, yet complex, LEED system rates buildings according to their environmental properties, including water and energy consumption, interior conditions and more.

The once mighty Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, is now little more than a polluted stream that could die next year unless the decay is halted, environmentalists said on Monday

When Israel occupied the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza strip in 1967 the common water sources were controlled by the Israeli government. Since then, Palestinian people don't have access to the amount of water necessary to develop and survive in a human way.

Just like Amnesty's faulty history, its water charges are both old and false. For example, more than 10 years ago National Public Radio reported similary false charges:

Water as a common ground for Middle East Peace

The bias in the article itself is easy to see if you know where to look. The BBC wanted to illustrate a story about Arab-only water shortages and chooses an Arab town that is not hooked up to the grid.

Palestinians say Israel makes it virtually impossible for them to dig new wells or to join Israel's water grid.

Africa's people are some of the poorest on the planet, and lack even the basics, such as water, to survive.

"The Pope was in Israel earlier this month, bringing with him thousands of Catholic pilgrims.

bulldozers came and uprooted olive, apricot and walnut trees, among others [...] Protesters were arrested and beaten, including Awad, who was put in jail and forced to sign a paper saying he would not go near his land in order to get out.

"Israel is known by foreign reports as the "Silicon Valley" of water technologies, and local companies have had tremendous success in Europe.

Despite Israel's constant struggle to maintain a sufficient water supply – or perhaps because of it – Israel was named the world's most efficient recycled water user in a United Nations report issued in honor of International Water Day. Presented at the 5th World Water Forum …

Between 600,000 and 700,000 Gazans have no water, some of them going on a week. About one million have no electricity, raw sewage is running in the streets in some places and various localities, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, face the threat of sewer backups.