Water Authority raises payments to private plants to about 4 shekels per cubic meter to keep them operating despite contamination, exposing vulnerabilities in Israel’s fully privatized desalination system

The shutdown has cut about 80 percent of Israel's desalinated water supply, as experts examine whether algae linked to sewage from Gaza and the Nile Delta contributed to the…

Experts say Gaza sewage, caused by war-damaged water infrastructure, fueled a Mediterranean microalgae bloom that disrupted Israeli desalination plants. Nearly one million Gazans…