Talk:Water supply and sanitation in Israel

Materials
Someone might want to add information from this source, especially the last 2 paragraphs. —Ynhockey (Talk) 23:05, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Old data
currently, the water use per person per day comes out to 137 liters/person/day. according to water.gov.il — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.94.75.217 (talk) 07:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Palestine
There is a glaring omission here of the political and internationally doubly illegal use of palestinian water by israel and by israeli "settlers" on palestinian land ref.--— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 21:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/water.html      et cetera

Problems in section "Conventional water resources"

 * The section about water usage in West Bank and Gaza does probably not belong to this article.
 * I doubt that http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ is a reliable source for wikipedia.
 * The section " Israelis use 24.." up to "..enough to drink." is a copyvio, directly copy-pasted from the Guardian article. Should we not remove it? 88.102.95.151 (talk) 17:25, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree and suggest to remove the sections. However, I think it is ok to keep a comparison of water resources per capita or water use per capita between Israel and the Palestinian territories in an appropriate place in the article.--Mschiffler (talk) 16:15, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

500,000 homes without sewerage
Since the link is broken I can't read the article to see what it actually says, but the figure seems far-fetched, and if it's somehow true then the methodology used to reach it might be faulty or misleading. There definitely aren't 500,000 homes in Israel not connected to sewerage, because that figure is close to the number of buildings in Israel, and multi-floor buildings are connected to the system. I am assuming that they are referring to housing units, including in localities unrecognized by the government. If so, this must be stated because otherwise the figure is very misleading; unrecognized localities aren't connected to sewerage by definition. —Ynhockey (Talk) 13:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I had a go at fixing it. Feel free to put the dubious tag back.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 13:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Percentage of water supply from desalination
The article says: "By 2014, Israel's desalination programs provided roughly 35% of Israel's drinking water and it is expected to supply 40% by 2015 and 70% by 2050."

Not only is this statement obviously outdated, I think it's also generally incorrect, as desalination provides over 50% of Israel's total water (not just drinking), as far as I know. This article puts the figure at 70% of the total, but that seems dubious too, and it's more likely that the 70% figure is related to drinking water. Does anyone have more reliable figures? I'm sure Mekorot publishes them, but I wasn't able to find anything with a simple search.

—Ynhockey (Talk) 07:38, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Groundwater (aquifers) in Israel AND Palestine
What do you think about combining somewhere the main data about the aquifers in Israel AND Palestine? Just the physical, not the political data. I just copied the main info on natural water resources from the Palestine article into this one, where so far it was missing (?!), and added a few words about the Galilee and the Negev. As we know, the physical geography of these two political entities is inextricably connected, the hydrography maybe more visibly so than any other aspect: the water crosses all political boundaries not only above ground, but (mainly?) underground, as aquifers; and in ecological terms, what you do upstream also affects everyone downstream. The two politically overloaded articles could then be linked to the "clean" one on hydrology, and continue fighting it out on the 'conflict' level. Opinion? PS: I've posted this idea also here and here. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 12:53, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Good idea. But where? You may want to create a new article called "Groundwater in Israel and Palestine" and create links from the two country water supply and sanitation profiles to that new article.--Mschiffler (talk) 13:55, 26 April 2019 (UTC)