{"id":225426,"date":"2025-11-19T05:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/israel-pumps-desalinated-water-into-depleted-sea-of-galilee"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:26:38","slug":"israel-pumps-desalinated-water-into-depleted-sea-of-galilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/israel-pumps-desalinated-water-into-depleted-sea-of-galilee","title":{"rendered":"Israel Pumps Desalinated Water Into Depleted Sea of Galilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israel-pumps-desalinated-water-into-depleted-sea-of-galilee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Water Authority has started channeling desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, marking the first ever attempt anywhere in the world to top up a freshwater lake with processed seawater.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking project, years in the making and a sign of both Israel\u2019s success in converting previously unusable water into a vital resource and the rapidly dropping water levels in the country\u2019s largest freshwater reservoir, was quietly inaugurated on October 23\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Firas Talhami, who is in charge of the rehabilitation of water sources in northern Israel for the Water Authority, told The Times of Israel that he expected the project to raise the lake\u2019s level by around 0.5 centimeters (0.2 inches) per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Water Authority has started channeling desalinated water to the Sea of Galilee, marking the first ever attempt anywhere in the world to top up a freshwater lake with processed seawater. The groundbreaking project, years in the making and a sign of both Israel\u2019s success in converting previously unusable water into a vital resource and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}