Water Carrier

    In 1964, Israel completed its National Water Carrier, a series of canals and pipelines to transport water from the relatively water-rich northern part of the country to the much dryer southern regions. This project promised to allow increased population growth and immigration, and also to spur industrial and agricultural development, and was therefore strenuously opposed by the Arab countries¹.

    Syria, by now led by a Ba’athist regime hostile to Nasser, took the lead in demanding Arab action to destroy the Israeli water project... Nasser, however, did not believe at the time that the Arabs were unified enough to defeat Israel, and he chose to defer a confrontation until what he saw as a more propitious moment¹.





Agricultural irrigation being provided by the National Water Carrier