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Rains And Floods
Force A Clean Up
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Occa-
sionally, a catastrophe turns
out to be a blessing in
disguise.
During the winter of 1992,
record-breaking rainfall and
violent snowstorms caused
many rivers to overflow into
residential areas.
Entire neighborhoods were
flooded, and several people
lost their lives.
At the time, the disaster
cost the country more than a
billion dollars in ruined
farmland and destroyed
property.
Yet last year's disastrous
flooding did have one
positive consequence: It
alerted the government and
ordinary Israelis to the
plight of the nation's rivers,
which have become
overgrown and polluted
through decades of neglect.
"It's ironic, but the
flooding really got the ball
rolling," said environmen-
talist Aviva Harari.
"People were forced to
wake up and ask why the
rivers couldn't handle the
extra water," she said.
"It's amazing how the
flood focused public atten-
tion on the rivers and the
problems of water pollution
— something environmental
groups have been trying to
do for years, without much
success," said Ms. Harari.
Ms. Harari, who heads a
project designed to clean up
the Lachish River in the
coastal city of Ashdod, at-
tributed the lack of
awareness to the fact that
"since founding the state,
Israelis have been preoc-
cupied with security and
building up the land. Other
things simply took priority.
"Until the flooding, the
nation's rivers were largely
ignored. Over the years they
became clogged with
overgrown plant life and
sediment.
"They also became the
dumping ground for tons of
sewage from private citizens
and industrial plants. Any
way you look at it, the result
was a disaster," Ms. Harari
said.
Stunned by the extent of
the damage — which cost the
Treasury more than a $100
million in insurance
payments to stricken
farmers and other flood vic-
tims — the government
scrambled for ways to shore
up the rivers and avoid a
similar scenario the follow-
ing winter.
The government called on
municipalities, the Jewish
National Fund and various
environmental groups to
help assess the extent of the
problem and to come up with
solutions.
As soon as the rains
stopped in the spring of
1992, scientists began
taking water samples from
rivers around the country,
while engineers devised
strategies to widen the
rivers and raise their banks.
"What we found was an
unhealthy river system get-
ting more unhealthy by the
minute," said Yigal
Seligman, a JNF envi-
ronmentalist in charge of
revitalizing the Kishon
River in Haifa.
"In addition to an ac-
cumulation of tree branches
and mud, we found the
bigger problem of industrial
plants dumping chemicals
and other waste into our
water supply.
"Water is a vital resource
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