Tests continued today all along the 70-mile section of the National Water Carrier project from Lake Tiberias to the southern terminal of the northern section at Rosh Haayin.
Rosh Haayin is also the starting point of the Yarkon-Negev portion of the huge pipeline project which taps the Jordan River through Lake Tiberias. It was disclosed that water to was flowing through the southern section to settlements in the Negev.
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