ENVIRONMENT

There is limited arable land and natural fresh water resources in Israel which poses serious constraints and leads to desertification. There is significant air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions. Groundwater pollution from industrial and domestic waste, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides is a danger in much of the country.

POWER IT FORWARD

Do a favor, give someone a break, offer help before it's asked for. Move the world around you and it will continue to move. Paying it forward is good work, personal work. Pass it on. Tell others to do the same.

JOIN POP’S “POWER IT FORWARD” GROUP

WATER

A water flash point involves the way water is divided between Israelis and Palestinians. A U.N. report notes that “nowhere are the problems of water governance as starkly demonstrated as in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Palestinians experience one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world. But the flash point is as much over inequity in the distribution of water as it is over scarcity. The Israeli population is roughly double that of the Palestinians, but it gets seven times as much water. As others have noted, peace in the region depends on a more equitable distribution of the region’s water. Without this, the peace process itself may dry up.

JOIN POP’S “CLEAN WATER IS A RIGHT” GROUP