True Joy Through Water, a new outreach program created by Canfei Nesharim (\”the wings of eagles\”), an Orthodox environmental organization, it\’s designed to educate about the importance of water, its imperiled state and ways to conserve it.
Many Jews know that on Tu B\’Shevat — the Jewish new year for trees, which falls this year on Jan. 28 — you can plant a tree. In the future, however, you may be able to buy a water certificate.
In most countries, forecasts of no water to drink by the summer would command banner front-page headlines. Not in Israel.
Ronald Steven Lauder has a dream.
At some point in the future, Israel\’s Negev desert, now \”basically Arizona without people,\” will be a lush garden spot, made fruitful by a string of desalination plants purifying seawater.
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