Desalination plants are only on the drawing board.
The head of the Mekorot water company has warned that Israel may not be able to supply the Palestinians with necessary water. And there's an annual obligation to the Jordanians to meet. In mid-March, Lebanon stepped up work on a new pumping station, just across the border, to draw water from the Hatzbani River. Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the move intolerable, and hard-line MK Michael Kleiner demanded the station be bombed forthwith. The Report asked water expert Amikam Nachmani, a senior research associate at Bar-Ilan Universty's BESA Center, how dangerous the crisis is.