{"id":601515,"date":"2026-08-31T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601515\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:18:13","slug":"desalination-plants-shut-down-due-to-seawater-turbidity-water-supply-to-southern-agr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/601515\/","title":{"rendered":"Desalination Plants Shut Down Due to Seawater Turbidity, Water Supply to Southern Agr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Water Authority reported that stormy weather led to severe turbidity in seawater and the temporary shutdown of some of Israel&#8217;s private desalination facilities. Following shortages in recent hours, the authority ordered a reduction in freshwater supply to agriculture in the southern region. The Water Authority clarified that this is not a cyber incident. Mekorot Water Company has increased available production capacity, which includes about 20 local facilities. According to estimates, some of the facilities are expected to resume operations soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Water Authority reported that stormy weather led to severe turbidity in seawater and the temporary shutdown of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-601515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}