This post was originally published by NoCamels. Check out their excellent coverage and follow them down here: In the hot and arid Middle East, clean water is liquid gold. Faced with limited rainfall ...

SOREK, Israel (AP) — After experiencing its driest winter on record, Israel is responding as never before — by doing nothing. While previous droughts have been accompanied by impassioned public ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday awarded a contract to build a new desalination plant to a local company, turning down a bid by a Hong Kong conglomerate at a time of growing U.S. pressure to avoid ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Tuesday chose local company IDE Technologies over a Chinese-linked rival to build the country’s largest desalination plant to tackle water shortages in one of the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas called it ...

Israel completed in 1966 a desalination plant with a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons of fresh water a day. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reported today. In addition, he stated, Israel had ...

The White House has linked any agreement to assist Israel in construction of a prototype desalination plant “with some corresponding gesture to friendly Arab nations, hopefully to alleviate the ...

Desalination could remake the region’s politics and ecology. It hasn’t yet. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue TEL AVIV, Israel — The water that flows into Sorek desalination plant is drawn from near the ...