More than IL 2 million will be invested by the Jewish National Fund in order to enlarge the reservoirs near Kuneitra and Heital and to dig a new reservoir near Butemia in the Golan. The JNF will increase the total capacity of the reservoirs from its present 3.9 million cubes of water to 6.8 million cubes. In another project the JNF has erected a 12 meter-high windmill near Beer Menucha, north of Eilat to utilize the strong Arava winds for the purpose of drawing water from underground wells for irrigation of the desert. Five of the windmills were the gift of an Argentinean industrialist who manufactured them by thousands for use in Argentina.
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