Editing Sea of Galilee (section)

==Water use==
[[File:Sea of Galilee from Gamla.jpg|thumb|The Sea of Galilee as seen from Gamla in the Golan Heights]]

The [[National Water Carrier of Israel]], completed in 1964, transports water from the lake to the population centers of Israel, and in the past supplied most of the country's drinking water.<ref>{{cite news|title=Black gold under the Golan|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677597-geologists-israel-think-they-have-found-oilin-very-tricky-territory-black-gold|access-date=8 November 2015|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=7 November 2015}}</ref> In 2016 the lake supplied approximately 10% of Israel's drinking water needs.<ref name="themaker1">{{cite news|last1=Amit|first1=Hagai|title=הקו האדום של הכנרת נהפך לבעיה של הירדנים|url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/tmr/1.2971984|access-date=12 June 2016|publisher=[[TheMarker]]|trans-title=The Kinneret's Red Line has Turned into Jordan's Problem|date=1 June 2016}}</ref>

In 1964, Syria attempted construction of a [[Headwater Diversion Plan]] that would have blocked the flow of water into the Sea of Galilee, sharply reducing the water flow into the lake.<ref>{{cite web|author=Fischhendler, Itay|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/global_environmental_politics/v008/8.1fischhendler.html|title=When Ambiguity in Treaty Design Becomes Destructive: A Study of Transboundary Water|work=[[Global Environmental Politics]]|year=2008|access-date=28 November 2008}}</ref> This project and Israel's attempt to block these efforts in 1965 were factors which played into regional tensions culminating in the 1967 Six-Day War. During the war, Israel captured the [[Golan Heights]], which contain some of the sources of water for the Sea of Galilee.

Up until the mid-2010s, about {{convert|400|e6m3|e9cuft|abbr=unit}} of water was pumped through the National Water Carrier each year.<ref>{{cite web |author= Shmuel Kantor |title= The National Water Carrier |url= http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/kantorb.html |access-date= 7 September 2013 |archive-date= 2 October 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181002192717/http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/kantorb.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> Under the terms of the [[Israel–Jordan peace treaty]], Israel also supplies {{convert|50|e6m3|e9cuft|abbr=unit}} of water annually from the lake to [[Jordan]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/1759b55472ee398b852562d7006b014a?OpenDocument |title= Developments related to the Middle East Peace Process |publisher= UN |access-date= 20 February 2008}}</ref> In recent years the Israeli government has made extensive investments in [[water conservation]], [[reclaimed water|reclamation]] and [[Desalination#Israel|desalination]] infrastructure in the country. This has allowed it to significantly reduce the amount of water pumped from the lake annually in an effort to restore and improve its ecological environment, as well as respond to some of the most extreme drought conditions in hundreds of years affecting the lake's [[drainage basin|intake basin]] since 1998. Therefore, it was expected that in 2016 only about {{convert|25|e6m3|e6cuft|abbr=unit}} of water would be drawn from the lake for Israeli domestic consumption, a small fraction of the amount typically drawn from the lake over the previous decades.<ref name="themaker1"/>