Landscape of a desert, a young man works on irrigation ditch in foreground. Two young women watering young trees for settlement. Men adjusting sprinklers for field of carrots. Sprinklers in action irrigating farmland. Woman in rubber boots and a man, irrigate new banana grove. In foreground workers finish the building up of cement canal for irrigation. Men planting banana trees and erecting sprinklers. Bananas loaded on to a cart.
Exteriors of a office building. Men enter the building. Sign of Palestine Mortgage and Credit Bank. Next sign is of Palestine Water Company. Interiors of the office. Men working on drawing boards, woman looking at plans. Men around the desk discuss plans.
Ruthenberg Electric Plant at junction of Yarmuk and Jordan rivers. Views of Electric plant, river and sluice gates. Engineer opens gates and enters. A 'danger' sign can be seen. Head Race Canal sluice gate opens. Yarmuk dam, gates open and water flows into river of Jordan. View of canal and water flowing under the gate.
Cars pass flooded road between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Views of trucks passing a flooded road. Bull dozer and scraper operated by British soldiers to deepen a drainage canal. (World War II period).
Engineers on boat sail up river. They row boat at mouth of River Jordan. Engineers surveying ground. An engineer looking through theodolite. Men digging channel with spades. Draining operations going on. Men laying pipe in the drainage canal.
Drainage operations going on. Machinery used to clear undergrowth. Scraper widens the canal. Views of scraper working and ploughing land. Driver of Caterpillar shown.
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