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September 12, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/international/middleeast/10GALI.html

Sea of Galilee Disappearing

(New York Times) - These days, even the lowest sinner can walk out onto the Sea of Galilee. The sea has dropped almost 20 feet since 1998. The 64-square-mile lake supplies 27 percent of Israel's fresh water and a significant portion of neighboring Jordan's. The crisis has forced Israel's water commissioner to curtail water for Israeli agriculture by a third.

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