Extreme weather forced five of six Mediterranean desalination plants to halt operations on Aug. 31 due to turbid seawater, the Israel Water Authority and local media said. The outages disrupted water supply nationwide; the authority ordered reduced freshwater deliveries to southern agriculture and suspended agricultural water in parts of the south. Jerusalem reported multiple neighborhood outages; authorities arranged alternative deliveries and public water points. Tel Aviv restricted park irrig

Extreme weather forced five of six Mediterranean desalination plants to halt operations on Aug. 31 due to turbid seawater, the Israel Water Authority and local media said. The outages disrupted water supply nationwide; the authority ordered reduced freshwater deliveries to southern agriculture and suspended agricultural water in parts of the south. Jerusalem reported multiple neighborhood outages; authorities arranged alternative deliveries and public water points. Tel Aviv restricted park irrigation, beach showers and public tap usage.