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Wide shot of sea of Galilee.2. Mid shot of sea of Galilee3. Pan from sea shore to water4. Set up shot of Yaron Hermoni, shop owner near the sea of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSea of Galilee, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, Israel - 25 June, 2000\u003cbr/\u003eSea of Galilee - June 25.\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of sea of Galilee.\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot of sea of Galilee\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan from sea shore to water\u003cbr/\u003e4. Set up shot of Yaron Hermoni, shop owner near the sea of Galilee\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yaron Hermoni, shop owner\u003cbr/\u003e6. Fishing boats in the sea\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various shots bank showing low water level.\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of pumping station near sea of Galilee\u003cbr/\u003e9. Fishing farm in the Jordan River, next to the sea of Galilee\u003cbr/\u003e10. Water pumps removing water from the sea of Galilee to fishing farms in the Jordan River\u003cbr/\u003e11. Fish in the water\u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem - June 25\u003cbr/\u003e12. Rose Garden outside Knesset\u003cbr/\u003e13. Set up shot of Amos Epstein, President of Israeli state-controlled Mekorot Water Company\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amos Epstein, President of Israeli state-controlled Mekorot Water Company\u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem - June 25\u003cbr/\u003e15. Opening of a water faucet\u003cbr/\u003e16. Long shot of woman watering garden\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of sprinklers in large garden\u003cbr/\u003eJerusalem - June 25\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Amikam Nachmani of Bar-Ilan University, specialist in Middle-East water issues\u003cbr/\u003e19. Cut away to dry area\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Amikam Nachmani of Bar-Ilan University, specialist in Middle-East water issues\u003cbr/\u003eTel Aviv - June 25\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various shots of bathers at Tel Aviv beach.\u003cbr/\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael is facing one of its most severe water shortages in decades and experts say that if no solution is found the situation could become \"catastrophic.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe government is already planning emergency measures to limit everyday water use including banning the watering of gardens and outlawing the washing of cars with a hose. \u003cbr/\u003eThe state is also looking into alternative sources of water supply and has already sent a delegation to Turkey to look into the possibility of importing drinking water.\u003cbr/\u003eIn recent years the shores of the Sea of Galilee have been retreating because Israelis have been drawing hundreds of millions of cubic metres beyond the amount replenished by rain.\u003cbr/\u003eThe increased demand for water, with grows by 40 to 50 (m) million cubic metres annually, is linked to the increase in the country's population. \u003cbr/\u003eNearly one million immigrants, mostly from the former Soviet Union, have arrived in Israel over the last decade.\u003cbr/\u003eYaron Hermoni owns a shop near the Sea of Galilee, called the Kinneret in Hebrew, and says the water shortage is evident.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Every day the water goes down about a centimetre, one centimetre every day.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Yaron Hermoni, shop owner\u003cbr/\u003eOn Sunday the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, convened an emergency meeting to discuss the critical shortage.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the meeting it was announced that the Mekorot water company would publish a tender within three weeks on a 130 (m) million dollar desalination plant capable of turning out 50 million cubic metres of water annually.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government is also looking into importing drinking water from Turkey.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The situation is very bad. We checked last week what is the option to import water from Turkey.  It's a possibility. And we know what the situation will be at the end of this year. The Sea of Galilee, the Kinneret will be at least one metre less than last year.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Amos Epstein, President of Israeli state-controlled Mekorot Water Company\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael is already planning emergency measures to limit everyday water use including banning the watering of gardens, outlawing the washing of cars with a hose and fining people for filling up private swimming pools.\u003cbr/\u003eBut environmental experts say the country has only itself to blame for overdrawing on its replenishable resources of some two billion cubic metres of water. \u003cbr/\u003eThey say the issue is not only one of quantity - as water levels in the reserves sink ever lower, the quality deteriorates because pollution gets absorbed at a higher rate. \u003cbr/\u003eForty percent of the water processed in Israel is not fit to drink if measured by international standards.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The triple problem that we suffer from, ie, the shortage of water, bad quality of water, and more consumers, all accumulate toward the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the year 2000 and now we do suffer from...I'm not exaggerating but I would say, close to a catastrophic situation of shortage of water.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Dr Amikam Nachmani of Bar-Ilan University, specialist in Middle-East water issues\u003cbr/\u003eDr Nachmani says that with the current level of consumption, Israel's water resources will not suffice.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We do not have enough water between the river and the sea in order to irrigate our agriculture, in order to give water for local and private and personal consumption and give water for our industrial use. 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