Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel: Holy Water—Lower Jordan River
Much of this section of the river is in the West Bank, under nominal Palestinian control, but in reality the entire river and valley are controlled by Israel. Regrettably this includes access to the river, making extensive photography (short of aerial, possibly meaning drones) virtually impossible. (All but one of these photos were made in March 2015, the end of the rainy season.)
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“The water quality is anything but holy in nature. The water quality for the full length of river south of Alumot [a dam below the Sea of Galilee] is a mixture of untreated and partly treated sewage, agricultural runoff, fish pond waste, and saline waters from springs to reduce salinity of Sea of Galilee… If in past the Jordan river was fast-flowing, overwhelmingly fresh water source, today the Jordan River hardly moves and has a very poor water quality.”—Gidon Bromberg, Ecopeace (quoted in The Times of Israel)