By SHARON UDASIN 05/19/2011 17:41 Swedish bus to run to Herzliya for the next couple weeks; engine saves about 30% in fuel consumption, 50% in air pollution. Talkbacks (3) The Metropoline Transit Company began using a hybrid Volvo bus this week in Kfar Saba, which will run along the city’s popular No. 29 line to […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/22/2011 23:15 Leading energy firms advocate the future export of both liquefied natural gas from the Leviathan basin, oil shale from the central Israel Shefela rock basin. Leading energy firms advocated the future export of both liquefied natural gas from the enormous Mediterranean Sea Leviathan basin, as well as oil shale from […]

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By Yoram Gabison Solar energy company Sunflower Sustainable Investments and Shikun & Binui are feeling the European debt crisis, after the Spanish government backed out of sweetheart terms for solar power. Sunflower will write down NIS 16 million of its investment in the Olmeda photovoltaic power project in Spain. Shikun & Binui and Sunflower each […]

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BEIRUT: The Environment Ministry is to build hundreds of solar water heaters on the roofs of public institutions, in a project financed by the Italian government. The project, which aims to install around 900 heaters providing hot water for more than 5,000 people, was launched Thursday by caretaker Environment Minister Mohammad Rahhal and the Italian […]

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If the White House can have solar panels, why not the Knesset? Let a new light finally shine forth from Zion. By David Rosenblatt, Yosef I. Abramowitz June 5 marks not only World Environment Day and the anniversary of the Six-Day War; this year it also marks the ribbon cutting for the first solar field […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/26/2011 03:33 Local communities suffering from mosquito infestation and polluted water to gain relief from new plant supported by World Bank. The World Bank declared its intention to oversee the creation of a $45 million Hebron Waste Water Treatment Plant in the Palestinian Authority at a meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, attended […]

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By Hana Namrouqa ZARQA/BALQA – Increasing water flow in the Zarqa River and removing sewage pipes from the waterway are the starting points for rehabilitating the heavily polluted river, ecologists and environmental experts said on Monday. Addressing the pollution of the Zarqa River, which originates from Ras Al Ain in Amman and flows into the […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/24/2011 02:03 FM Yuval Steinitz signs agreement approving new factory near Ashdod, which will make 65% of Israel’s water from desalinated sources. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz signed an agreement on Monday approving the construction and operation of a new desalination facility in Soreq, near Ashdod, which upon completion will make Israel’s domestic […]

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By SHARON UDASIN AND BEN HARTMAN 05/24/2011 01:57 NIS 750 million plan calls for increasing tourism, harvesting salt; MK Henin praises move, says Dead Sea Works should shoulder costs. The Tourism and Environmental Protection Ministries announced on Monday that they will recommend salt harvesting as the solution to the rising water levels in the southern […]

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By JPOST EDITORIAL 05/25/2011 23:18 The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the kickstarting of a dispute about who must foot the bill for keeping it healthy. The lowest point on earth promises to rise high on the controversy scale in coming months. The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the […]

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Hanin Ramahi The Society of Energy Conservation and Sustainable Environment President Ayyoub Abu Diyye has revealed that there are traces of radiated molecules in the Disi Water Project area, possibly posing a threat to the health of citizens who will be drinking from it. The Disi Water Project is to be completed in 2013, and […]

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By Abeer Numan AMMAN – Jordan must work to store and make use of rainwater instead of focusing on drainage systems in order to address the water problem in the country, University of Jordan (UJ) Professor Nasim Barham said on Monday. Delivering a lecture titled, “Water in Rentier States: A Case Study of Jordan”, at […]

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By Simona Sikimic EIRUT: Water experts from across the Arab world gathered in Beirut Tuesday for a three-day intergovernmental meeting set to discuss legal frameworks monitoring water redistribution and management. “The situation in Lebanon is rather favorable in comparison to its neighbors … but Lebanon must nonetheless take care of its resources and trans-boundary aquifers […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/25/2011 02:56 Minister praises environmental progress in settlement, says funding will be provided for future projects. Talkbacks (2) From a forest in the Te’ena neighborhood of Efrat, 12thgrader Naftali Gross told Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan about a recycling initiative he and his peers have been leading – a school-wide campaign of […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/25/2011 03:06 “Now I see that the Jewish leadership in Judea and Samaria is also leading the green revolution in Israel,” minister says. Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan visited the Yeshiva High School for boys in the South Hebron Hills settlement of Sussiya on Tuesday, to inaugurate a new wind power generator […]

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A focus on boosting diplomatic ties has improved Egypt’s relations with the Nile Basin countries, reports Doaa El-Bey The new atmosphere that has existed in Egypt since the 25 January Revolution has helped ease differences over the fair distribution of Nile water between the upper and lower Nile Basin states, with Egypt working on improving […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – With the onset of summer, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation has started distributing water-saving devices to households across the country to reduce water use during the hot season. Under the ministry’s summer campaign, technical teams will install these fixtures in households in six governorates where demand is high and […]

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By Antoine Amrieh BATROUN: In the mountains of north Lebanon this time of year, visitors encounter the roaring sound of water cascading from the slopes to the valleys as the winter snow melts. Meanwhile, residents in coastal areas of places like Batroun are encountering the roaring sound of water delivery trucks, and complaining of a […]

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Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) Workshop June 19-24, 2011 Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian water practitioners are invited to apply for the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) workshop from June 19-24, 2011 on Kibbutz Ketura, Israel. WEAP is useful microcomputer tool for integrated water resources management that goes a step beyond conventional supply-oriented water simulation models. […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/22/2011 03:16 Municipality pays nothing for technology, shares profits from lower electricity bills. Israeli wastewater treatment technology developer, Mapal Green Energy, has developed a new financial incentive for using its floating fine-bubble diffusers – where the client pays nothing for the technology and installation, and is only responsible for sharing profits from […]

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