Is it illegal to wash cars with water in Israel?

In Israel, adult men who wash their cars with water pipes will be punished by law. The purpose of the law is to "humiliate the father in front of the children".

Israel is a country with a shortage of fresh water resources in the Middle East. Since the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), the government has realized the importance of saving water, so it has been spending huge sums of money on water resources research, with remarkable results.

Newcomers to Israel will soon find that there are two buttons on the toilet here, one is small and the other is big, which is used for flushing after defecation, and the flushing volume is half different. Relevant research shows that about half of domestic water comes from toilets. Therefore, it is by no means a mountain out of a molehill for Israel to implement water-saving measures from toilets.

In Israel, you can hardly see slogans about water saving, but you can always feel the actual practice of water saving in Israel. For example, apart from professional car wash shops, no one has ever seen a car wash, and only after asking did they know that Israel forbids anyone to wash a car with water before sunset.

The Israeli government strictly regulates water resources. The Water Law promulgated by 1959 stipulates that all water resources in Israel belong to the state and are distributed by the state, and no unit or individual may exploit groundwater at will. To this end, Israel has established a Water Resources Committee, which is responsible for setting water prices, allocating and supervising water resources.

The water conservancy commission determines the water price and water supply according to the water consumption and water quality. The water price used by urban residents is much higher than that used by farmers, and the government also charges urban residents extra sewage treatment fees. Generally speaking, for a family of four living in cities and towns, the water quota set by the government is 24 cubic meters per month, and the price is 65438+ 0.2 US dollars per cubic meter. The excess is priced at $5 per cubic meter.

Agricultural production consumes a lot of water. In order to encourage farmers to save water, the government has set a ladder price for farmers' water use: the lowest price is within 60% of the water quota, and the highest price is when the water consumption exceeds 80%.

The terrain of Israel is long and narrow from north to south, and the annual precipitation is very uneven. Water resources are concentrated in the north and middle, but farmland is mainly distributed in the east and arid south. Therefore, the government invested in the construction of the "North-South Water Transfer Project"-the national water supply system, which was put into use in 1964, and transported 400 million tons of water from Lake Galilee in the north to the arid area in the Negev in the south every year. At the same time, the government also transports excess water to the eastern Mediterranean coastal areas in the rainy winter and spring in the north, and injects it into aquifers to prevent seawater from flowing backwards due to the drop of groundwater level. If the national water supply system is compared to the main artery, then the small water supply systems connected with it are like capillaries, which are connected with each other and form a network extending in all directions. The Water Resources Committee can allocate water resources according to needs.

Since the founding of Israel, the water used for agricultural irrigation has decreased from 8,000 tons per hectare to 5,000 tons, but the arable land area has increased by nearly 6,543.8+0.8 million hectares. Agricultural drip irrigation technology is a masterpiece among many water-saving technologies. Drip irrigation technology can directly transport water to the roots of crops, saving 20% water than sprinkler irrigation, and applying drip irrigation to sloping farmland will not aggravate soil erosion. Fertilizer manufacturers also try their best to develop water-soluble products, and fertilization can be carried out at the same time as drip irrigation.

In terms of increasing water sources, Israel has increased its investment in sewage treatment and seawater desalination projects. In the mid-1990s, Israel made a long-term plan to increase water resources, including building a desalination plant with an annual output of 400 million tons of fresh water and a sewage treatment plant with an annual output of 500 million tons of pure water. Israel plans to use all reclaimed water after sewage treatment for agricultural irrigation in the future.