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    The Central Arava region of Israel spans about 1.5 million dunams and includes several moshavim (agricultural settlements) along the Jordanian border. The area has a desert climate with high temperatures, low rainfall, and varied plant and animal life that has adapted to the harsh conditions. Water resources in the region include aquifers tapped by over 50 drills, as well as flood water reservoirs like Iddan, Hazeva, Nekarot, and Tsukim. Agriculture has shifted from open fields to greenhouses and nethouses, and the region now exports 60% of Israel's fresh vegetables and about 15% of cut flowers. Development of the region is limited by its distance from population

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    The Central Arava region of Israel spans about 1.5 million dunams and includes several moshavim (agricultural settlements) along the Jordanian border. The area has a desert climate with high temperatures, low rainfall, and varied plant and animal life that has adapted to the harsh conditions. Water resources in the region include aquifers tapped by over 50 drills, as well as flood water reservoirs like Iddan, Hazeva, Nekarot, and Tsukim. Agriculture has shifted from open fields to greenhouses and nethouses, and the region now exports 60% of Israel's fresh vegetables and about 15% of cut flowers. Development of the region is limited by its distance from population

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    The Central Arava region of Israel spans about 1.5 million dunams and includes several moshavim (agricultural settlements) along the Jordanian border. The area has a desert climate with high temperatures, low rainfall, and varied plant and animal life that has adapted to the harsh conditions. Water resources in the region include aquifers tapped by over 50 drills, as well as flood water reservoirs like Iddan, Hazeva, Nekarot, and Tsukim. Agriculture has shifted from open fields to greenhouses and nethouses, and the region now exports 60% of Israel's fresh vegetables and about 15% of cut flowers. Development of the region is limited by its distance from population

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    CENTRAL

    ARAVA

    Egypt

    Jordan

    C EN
    TRA
    L AR
    AVA

    Iddan
    Hatzeva
    Ein Yahav
    Sapir
    Tzofar

    Paran

    The Central Arava


    is spread over an
    area of about
    . 1500000 dunams

    CENTRAL
    Hazeva
    Moshav Iddan
    ARAVA
    Moshav
    Ein Yahav

    Iddan
    Hatzeva
    Ein Yahav
    Sapir
    Tzofar
    Tzukim
    Paran

    150m
    below
    sealevel
    level
    180m
    below
    sea
    Tzukim
    Sapir
    Paran
    Moshav
    Tzofar
    87mMoshav
    below
    sea
    level
    Established
    1971
    Established
    1980
    13m
    44m
    below
    sea
    level
    104m
    above
    sea
    level
    2mabove
    below
    Established
    1967
    farms
    126
    farms
    67
    Established
    2003
    1978
    Established
    1971
    Established
    1977
    farms 126
    About
    6,900
    caltivated
    dunams
    About
    4,400
    caltivated
    dunams
    families
    families
    140
    40
    farms
    102
    farms
    85 dunams
    About 8,000
    caltivated
    About
    About6,300
    5,800caltivated
    caltivateddunams
    dunams

    Topography
    Yahel
    Paran
    Yotvata
    Eilat
    Sea
    level

    Tzofar

    Sapir
    Ein Yahav
    Hazeva
    Iddan
    Neot
    Hakikar

    Red sea

    Dead sea

    RIFT VALLEY
    The Arava is part of
    a 3000km rift valley
    which means a long
    history of
    .earthquakes

    CLIMATE
    Most days are bright with high radiation and no clouds. Everage
    .percipitation is between 25-50 mm per year
    The Arava is situated in the Dead Sea Rift Valley which create desert
    .climate conditions that are different from other parts of Israel
    Long summer with average temp of 40 degrees during the day and 25
    degrees at night.0 Dry winter, average temp of 25 degrees during the
    .day and cold nights up to bellow zero

    PLANT ADAPTATION
    .Plants need to adjust to this hard conditions

    PLANT ADAPTATION
    Plants organized in the surroundings according to the existence and the
    .amount of water
    Plants have various ways to keep the water and continue the species
    . existence

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    .The camel is the most adaptable creature to the desert

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    Uromastix Aegptius

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    GOLDEN SPINY MOUSE
    Acomys Russatus

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    LESSER GERBIL
    Gerbillus Gerbillus

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    NUBIAN IBEX
    Capra Nubiana

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    Gazella Dorcas

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    HUMES TAWNY OWL
    Strix Butleri

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    ARABIAN LEOOARD
    Panthera Pardus

    ANIMAL ADAPTATION
    ARABIAN HORNED VIPER
    Cerasteri gasperettii

    LAND DEVELOPMENT

    MAP OF AQUIFERS

    Arava Refill
    drills 13
    5,686,000cm

    Lower
    Cretaceous
    drills 3
    cm 2,799,000
    Cenomanian
    drills 4
    cm1,988,000

    Hatzeva
    drills 25
    cm14,141,000

    Aluvium
    drills 6
    cm 1,513,000
    Senon-Turon
    1 drill
    617,000cm

    DRILLS

    DRILLS

    drills 52
    Pumping from 5 aquifers
    About 36 million cubic
    .meter of water per year

    Dozens of observations
    .drills
    reservoirs 5
    In full capacity of 36
    million cubic meter of
    .water

    Reservoirs in the Central


    Arava
    Tmarim
    Iddan

    Hazeva

    Jordan

    Nekarot

    Israel

    Tzukim

    Eshet

    FLOOD WATER RESERVOIRS


    Iddan
    1,250,000

    :reservoir
    :capacity

    exsist

    :Water net sys

    exsist

    :Mine problem

    no
    Arava,Uba

    :Border problem
    :Fill from rivers

    FLOOD WATER RESERVOIRS


    Hazeva :reservoir
    1,500,000 :capacity
    exist :Water net sys
    exist :Mine problem
    No :Border problem
    Fidan, Arava :Fill from rivers

    FLOOD WATER RESERVOIRS


    Nekarot

    :reservoir

    2,500,000 :capacity
    planned :Water net sys
    no :Mine problem
    No :Border problem
    Nekarot :Fill from rivers

    FLOOD WATER RESERVOIRS


    Tsukim

    :reservoir

    750,000 :capacity
    exist :Water net sys
    exist :Mine problem
    exist :Border problem
    Paran :Fill from rivers

    FLOOD WATER RESERVOIRS


    Eshet

    :reservoir

    2,500,000 :capacity
    exist :Water net sys
    no :Mine problem
    partly :Border problem
    Hayun :Fill from rivers

    REGION LIMITATIONS

    distance from population centers


    small amount of rainfall

    Limitations of line water supply and pumping stations.


    no cleared sewage water.

    Optimal water consumption for agriculture, daylight irrigation .

    REGION LIMITATIONS
    Water in the Arava should have treatment
    like cooling, iron filtering and release of hydrogen sulfate
    Soil and water corrosion raise the price of drilling equipment

    Agriculture Change
    Movement from open
    fields to greenhouses
    .and nethouses
    1959

    1979

    1999

    Export

    The region export 60% from


    Israel fresh vegetables
    export and about 15% of cut
    .flowers

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