Much of Jordan River polluted with sewage.

From: The Christian Century | Date: December 13, 2005| Author: Chabin, Michele | Copyright information

At the Alumot Dam on the edge of Kibbutz Deganya, a cooperative community located a couple of miles south of the Sea of Galilee, you can smell the Jordan River long before you see it. Once you are there, two Jordan rivers come into view.

North of the dam, the water is clean enough for swimming, and every year tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims flock to Yardenit, the picturesque baptism site on the Israeli side of the Jordan, the fiver in which Jesus was baptized. <...

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