Just a few kilometers south of the Yardenit baptismal site, plastic soda bottles blanket the southernmost “clean” section of the Jordan River, while below, raw sewage trickles into a saline brook gushing from an adjacent pipe.
A stench overpowers the nostrils of passersby, as the wastewater from nearby communities makes its way into the Jordan River, just south of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
Read the whole story at the Jerusalem Post.
