New bill seeks to protect Israel’s marine ecology


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Adam Teva V’Din marine management head Adv. Tammy Ganot says that preservation of the ecosystem is important not only “in the classic sense of a variety of species and nature that are important in themselves, but also for our ability to makes use of the ecosystem, the use of water for desalinization, for example. Water contaminated with oil cannot be used for desalinization, and 70% of the drinking water today is from desalinization. That means that the sea cannot be used for fishing, which harms tourism, and requires taking notice of the enormous damage that can result from [
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