Jerusalem, 15 November, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Israel is planning to restore water flows to depleted natural streams as part of an effort to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems and preserve wildlife habitats, the Energy and Infrastructure Ministry announced on Sunday.
The ministry issued a tender to prepare a restoration plan for four additional stream basins, with the findings intended to support a proposed government resolution covering five basins.
Decades of water extraction, spring tapping, and diversion for other uses have reduced the amount of water reaching Israel’s streams, damaging the natural habitats that depend on them.
The planning process will examine how much water can be returned to nature without compromising the country’s water supply, as well as the infrastructure, funding, and coordination needed to carry out the work.
“Having become global leaders in water technologies and established the world’s best desalination plants, it is now time to give back to nature and restore it,” Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen said.
The initiative builds on a 2018 government program to restore water flows to seven streams in northern Israel.
