In colloquial 1970’s Hebrew: “מֵי בְּרֵאשִׁית” (Waters of Creation) – in English: “Fossil Water” -and- Israel has more than enough for many centuries of flourishing domestic needs; including ALL household, agricultural, industrial, and recreational uses. This Astoundingly Enormous water resource is divided into two deep (non-renewable) Sealed Aquifers – one atop the other; which span beneath most of Sinai & Negev, Yehuda & southern Shomron -AND- (of course) even include a deep subterranean projection going under Har HaZeitim and up to Har HaBayit ⇒ as foretold in Ezekiel 47:1-12; Joel 3:18; and Zechariah 14:8 ⇒ ‘later’ partially reported in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022169472900923 (1972) & https://www.jstor.org/stable/24967728 (1985) & numerous Subsequent/Current geological surveys – conducted by the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) → often with various international researchers: Summary (2019) → https://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-reservoir-of-ancient-water-below-the-israeli-desert-scientists-just-traced-its-origin -and- in Greater Detail (including link to “Supporting Information” Data – 1.09 MB Appendix) → https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904260116

SURPRISE: The upper one – of these two sealed Fossil Water aquifers – is correctly located at depth 15,000 Biblical-cubits {not Q-bits} – as recorded (500-600 CE) in Talmud Bavli’s Sukkot 53b (depth measurement ⇒ therein attributed to Duvid HaMelech A”H at about 1000 BCE). This upper Fossil Water aquifer is below a better-known intermediary quasi-sealed (very slowly recharging) aquifer https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/entities/publication/395c9019-84ca-41f9-9853-d1920a67ee68.

Penetrating into the upper fossil water aquifer, after having failed to discover recoverable Fossil Fuel deposits (in these last fifty years), there remain today more than a few capped wildcat prospecting wells among Harei Yehuda’s ridges, near Arad, and (at or) above the sea-level ‘zero’ edges of central north-eastern Negev [https://en-il.topographic-map.com/map-4j6knh/Dead-Sea/?center=31.04519,35.22879&zoom=9]. 

These fossil waters are ‘peculiarly’ brackish (requiring special processing – described below in ‘3a-3e’) – albeit significantly less saline than Mediterranean Sea water; thus amenable to Reverse Osmosis (RO) processing → that will cost less than ongoing RO processing of saltier coastal Sea water ⇒ By reason that: (i) This homogeneous ancient water does not include any (costly to filter out) organic material whatsoever; (ii) It emerges from wellheads under pressure (needs NO energy-use costly: saline-tolerant water pumps -nor- pre-pumping pressurization into the RO); and (iii) At Most Wellheads – this water is warmer than Negev daytime temperature extremes (thus instantly exploitable as a ‘green’ geothermal energy asset).

While these RO sweet waters are less costly to pump back into the national water carrier than are the RO recovered Mediterranean waters – current Mediterranean coastal RO facilities will remain substantially cost competitive for providing sweet water to Mishor HaḤof. Furthermore, each RO fossil-facility provides greater mutual redundancy for sustaining growing national water consumption needs than the Kinneret ‘reserve’ does.

As Israel’s most significant natural resource, higher salinity Discharge waters from RO facilities (to be located at some of these capped wildcat wellheads) – should include numerous value-adding........

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