Kiryat Shmona greens resurrect downtown stream

14.04.2011                      10.Nisan, 5771

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Kiryat Shmona greens resurrect downtown stream

Water Authority pledges that this summer, 50 to 70 cubic meters per hour of water will flow through the stream and that in two years, all of the water of the Ein Zahav Stream will be restored.

Environmental activists in Kiryat Shmona and nearby Tel Hai Academic College can chalk up a hard-won victory: Ein Zahav Stream, which runs right through the town but in recent years had been allowed to run dry in the summer, its water siphoned off for drinking and bottling, will once again flow year-round.
The stream, which originates from springs that emerge near the foot of the Naftali Mountains to the west, wends its way through the city from north to south for about 2.5 kilometers….