| This creek (wadi) is dry during the year. But in a good rainy season we have a few hours of running water. In the background is a different water carrier. It looks like a Roman aqueduct but it was built by the Ottomans and is "only" 190 years old. It carried water to the ancient city of Akko. |
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| If we have 120 hours of heavy rain we can fill with strong pumps our water reservoir, if we if we don't pump, the water will flow into the Mediterranean sea (3 miles). |
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| Here is the reservoir with 600 thousand cubic meter of rain water. We use it to irrigate our crops and avocado trees. |
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This is the center of an irrigation "carrousel" connected to the main water supply. |
| The 360 meters long beam with sprinklers rotates slowly and covers an area of 420 dunam (104 acres) |
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The reservoir is a resting place for birds migrating from Europe to Africa and back. |
| In the past the the water tower was the symbol of every Israeli settlement. Today we have an integrated water system which serves Jewish and Arab municipalities. |
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There are future plans to build an desalination plant in this area. It will have the capacity to turn every year 60 million cubic meters of sea water into drinking water . |
