Talk:Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer

Name, area
The common name for the aquifer is the "Western Mountain Aquifer." It is known in Israel as  Yarkon-Taninim and in Palestine as Ras al Ain-Timsah. Furthermore, it is unclear what aquifer the article is about. The Western aquifer doesn't stretch to the Mediterranean as that is the location of the "Coastal Aquifer." ImTheIP (talk) 00:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Groundwater (aquifers) in Israel AND Palestine
Hi Zero. 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 Water supply and sanitation in the State of Palestine into Water supply and sanitation in Israel, where so far it was missing (?!), and added there 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? You can of course include in the discussion all the other "usual suspects". I dropped the idea on you, and am now running back to deal with real life. Coward... :) Cheers, Arminden (talk) 12:43, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * An article on all the aquifers that includes a map would be good. Do you know of a good map? Zerotalk 15:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Not beyond what Google comes up with. See the ones I found today for this article. One major issue: I didn't come across any simple overview map, with the Coastal Aq. marked separately from the Mt. Aq. and also indicating the extent of the local aquifers from the Galilee and Negev & Arava (the latter: semi-fossil water, as far as I know). The Coastal Aq. and the Mt. Aq. seem to possibly overlap, then there are bodies of water at different depths one beneath the other, and due to pumping in modern times the boundaries are shifting, so I guess there cannot be much more than a general sketch to explain the terms. Arminden (talk) 15:32, 21 April 2019 (UTC)