“… placed him in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate and to guard it.”

Genesis 2:15

The Problem:

The mighty, fabled Jordan River is not exactly what it once was. What was once a crossroads of civilizations and continents, where John the Baptist first baptized Jesus Christ and the Israelites crossed into the Land, is now a divided river greatly suffering from pollution.

Water from the once-proud Jordan River is being diverted for domestic and agricultural use, which has left the lower part of the river as a shriveled up little stream. Just south of where many Christians come each year to get baptized is where the water goes from holy to profane.

What’s worse is that not only has the river mostly dried up, it has turned into a sewage dumping ground. In essence the lower part of the Jordan River has turned into a sewage canal. Again, holy to profane.

Some more facts you should know about the Jordan River:

While the river’s waters are polluted, thousands of pilgrims are still baptized thereeach year.

Unfortunately it is not only the Jordan River that is polluted. Other rivers in the Holy Land, many of which are mentioned in the Bible have become drainage ditches for polluting factories and Zalul works to save all of them, but we can only do it with your help.

The Solution:

Achieving genuine change in the state of Israel’s rivers requires a systematic, multifaceted public campaign. Such a campaign will target polluters, offer alternative solutions to sewage spillage, take up legal battles, change in legislation, encourage local communities to take action, and hold those in charge of enforcing pollution regulations accountable for their weak stance towards polluters.

Zalul will work to raise the awareness of the public in order to bring the issue of pollution in the Jordan River to the top of the national agenda. Further, Zalul will advocate new legislation based around the “polluter pays principle” in which those who choose to harm the nation’s water resources will be forced to pay for their actions as well as introduce new legislation creating clear standards for the management of rivers.

Zalul will hold the polluters accountable for their irresponsible practices, thereby creating legal and public precedence, barring future contamination of rivers by these and other polluting agents.

The world’s most holy river must run clean again.

With your help we can make it happen.

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