California’s Gov. Jerry Brown signed a strategic cooperation Agreement with Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu to receive aid from Israel, the world’s acknowledged expert on irrigation & water use.
California has been going through a catastrophic drought for three years now, which has cost the state’s economy at least $2.2 billion and left 500,000 acres of what was once rich, productive farmland fallow.
![Prof. Eilon Adar (r), director of the Negev’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research with colleagues at Ben-Gurion University. - Photo: Dani Machlis/BGU](https://new.israelandstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prof.-Eilon-Adar-r-director-of-the-Negev’s-Zuckerberg-Institute-for-Water-Research-with-colleagues-at-Ben-Gurion-University.-Photo-Dani-MachlisBGU.png)
Prof. Eilon Adar (r), director of the Negev’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research with colleagues at Ben-Gurion University. – Photo: Dani Machlis/BGU
So where did California turn to for help? Not the Obama White House, but to Israel, the world’s acknowledged expert on irrigation and water use.