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| April 23, 2013
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Israel plans bringing clean water to the world

 

The Israeli company Odis commemorates UN Water Cooperation Year by unveiling its new filtering system that could provide clean drinking water to even the most impoverished places.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Israel last week unveiled at the UN a unique new filtration system that will finally allow people in Africa and South America to access clean drinking water.

Ron Prosor – רון פרושאור
Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations

 

The presentation of the new system came during the Israeli delegation’s celebration of Israel’s 65th Independence Day at UN headquarters in New York City. Under the banner of “65 Years of Israeli Innovation,” the event was attended by ambassadors from around the world, UN officials, journalists and leaders of the Jewish community in New York. Continue Reading »

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| March 19, 2013
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Israeli to expand water projects globally

Miya, a company set up by Israeli billionaire Shari Arison, continues to expand into Europe, Asia & Latin America this coming year to meet rising demand for drinkable water.

By Reuters

 

Miya, the water company set up by Israeli billionaire Shari Arison, will continue to expand into Latin America, Europe and Asia this year to meet rising demand for drinkable water.

Shari ArisonArison said Miya was already doing projects in the Bahamas, Manila and in Brazil.

“Most urban water systems lose a huge amount of water and we have come up with the way of using efficient management that reduces that lossage, which creates more water for people,” Arison told Reuters recently on the sidelines of a philanthropic event known as Good Deeds Day. Continue Reading »

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| March 6, 2013
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Britain invites Israeli innovators to UK water summit

British Embassy in TA will be taking 14 Israeli water technology companies to an upcoming UK water summit

 

 

In an attempt to strengthen future water innovation partnerships between Israel and the United Kingdom, the British Embassy will be bringing 14 water technology companies to an upcoming UK water summit.
UK Ambassador Matthew Gould

UK Ambassador Matthew Gould – Photo: UK Embassy in Israel (YouTube)

Leading the companies to London for the World Water-Tech Investment Summit will be the embassy’s UK-Israel Tech Hub, whose mission is to encourage technological partnerships between the two countries as a mechanism for economic growth, according to the embassy.

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| February 5, 2013
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Israel Water Authority Declares End to Water Crisis

Over the past 7 years, Israel established 3 state of the art, water desalination plants along its Mediterranean coast, that now provide the state with nearly half of its drinking water.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel’s Water Authority on Monday officially declared the national water crisis to be over, and lifted its “severe drought advisory.”

rain average“The water crisis is over” and the situation is stable, but Israelis must not become complacent lest the nation find itself in a drought situation again, stated Water Authority Head Alexander Kushner.

Israel has suffered from dryer than usual winters for the past seven years, resulting in an overdraft of its national reservoirs, in particular the Sea of Galilee. Continue Reading »

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| February 1, 2013
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Water Economy Must Get More Energy Efficient

Water management experts say at CleanTech symposium, that in 18 months, desalination plants will provide enough water for 80% of Israel’s urban drinking needs.

 

As the Israeli water management and treatment industries continue to grow, it is crucial to ensure that all facilities operate with maximum efficiency, to prevent the loss of valuable energy, experts agreed at a conference at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Tuesday.

Desalination plant in HaderaWater professionals and government officials were speaking at the Energy-Water Nexus Symposium, held within the CleanTech 2013 – 17th Annual International Summit and Exhibition.

“Israel is emerging from times of crisis in the area of water into stability,” Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau said. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2013
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Israel’s IDE to build largest desalination plant in San Diego worth $650m

Israeli Company signs 30-year deal with California’s Encina Power Station to design & maintain water project subbed ‘largest of its kind in western hemisphere’

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Israel-based IDE Technologies announced that it has signed a contract with one of the largest desalination construction companies in the United States to design and supply equipment for the largest seawater desalination plant in the country.

Desalination facility - Photo by MekorotAccording to the company’s press release, the facility will be located near the Encina Power Station in Carlsbad, California.

The company has also signed a contract directly with Poseidon Resources for Operation & Maintenance (O&M) of the plant for a period of 30 years. Continue Reading »

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| January 6, 2013
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Israel’s IDE to build desalination plant in San Diego worth $650m

An Israel Chemicals & Delek joint venture will design & supply equipment, and operate the Carlsabad desalination plant in San Diego for it’s first 30 years.

By Globes’ correspondent

 

IDE desalination plant, Jamnagar, India – Photo: IDE-tech.com webpage

IDE Technologies Ltd., owned in equal shares by Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) and Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL), has signed a $150 million contract with one of the largest desalination ventures in the US to plan and supply equipment for the largest desalination plant in the country. The plant will be built near the Encina power station in Carlsabad, in San Diego County, California. Continue Reading »

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| December 19, 2012
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Massachusetts-Israel cooperate to build water innovation

A state survey showed that already in 2009, nearly 100 Israeli companies were located in Massachusetts, contributing 6,000 jobs directly & 21,000 jobs indirectly, that were generating $2.4 billion per year.

 

As Massachusetts eagerly seeks Israeli partners in water innovation, a Herzliya-based firm specializing in rapid microbiological water testing will get the chance to showcase its systems in the New England hi-tech hub.

TACount company.

TACount company – Photo: Daniel Selligson

Led by CEO Charles Gast, the TACount company was the winner among six finalists in the W.E.T. (Water Export Technology) Revolution Competition on Tuesday in Tel Aviv, organized by the Massachusetts Water Innovation Mission to Israel – a trade delegation of 48 industry executives. Continue Reading »

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| December 15, 2012
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Israel21c presents their Top 10 ways Israel fights desertification

 

ISRAEL21c takes a serious look at Israel’s  worldwide reputation for its ability to turn barren desert into useful & arable land.

This past year’s erratic and violent weather is only a small taste of what’s to come, climate scientists predict, as the impact of global warming starts to hit. Weather will become more unpredictable, flooding will become even fiercer, and droughts and famine more widespread as land increasingly gives over to desert.

With desert covering a large part of its surface, Israel has had to quickly develop solutions for its lack of arable land and potable water. Continue Reading »

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| August 9, 2012
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Israel’s solar-powered desert oasis confronts world hunger

 

The best of Israel’s clean-tech & agri-tech  innovations are combined into a new ‘oasis’ system that could feed millions of desert-dwellers.

 

Growing the most crop per drop of water is an Israeli specialty. With little rain and a hot desert sun as unforgiving as the Sahara, Israel’s high-tech researchers and farmers have combined their expertise to grow a cornucopia of salt-tolerant crops in dry desert conditions. People from hungry countries far and wide come to learn from Israel’s expertise.

These crops are being grown with solar-energy desalinated water.

These crops are being grown with solar-energy desalinated water.

Now, a new research project by two desert research institutes has strung several Israeli agriculture and clean-tech specialties together to help alleviate world hunger and push back the desert through an artificial desert oasis using low-cost desalination technology that runs on solar power. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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The United States is in a Serious Drought, and Israel Can Help

Israeli Water Desalination expert has solutions for the current drought in the US.

By Gideon Israel

 

The New York Times reported recently that the current drought afflicting the US, which has spread to more than half of the continental United States, is the most widespread drought in more than half a century – and it appears that conditions will worsen.

There have been forecasts of increased dry conditions over the central United States, a development which could lead to higher food prices and shipping costs.  The government has declared nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states a federal disaster area as a result of the drought. Continue Reading »

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| July 20, 2012
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Gray water is safe for household use, according to Israeli scientists

Israel’s Health Ministry opposition nixes plan for household recycling systems.

Scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have proven the efficiency of gray water purification systems and that people should be encouraged to use such water.

The project is one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken anywhere in the world to study the re-use of gray water – water that is generated in homes in laundry, dishwashing and bathing and can be recycled to irrigate gardens.

Researchers at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa

Researchers at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. – Photo by Moti Milrod

The study found that in most cases the quality of the water stored after treatment was very high. Continue Reading »

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| June 7, 2012
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Mekorot targets international water market

Israel uses its water industry to connect to countries that otherwise might hesitate to have ties with the Jewish state.

 

TEL AVIV – Israel‘s national water company Mekorot wants to use its expertise in finding unconventional sources for clean water to help it expand globally, as countries step up their efforts to avoid water shortages.

A rise in population along with climate changes threatens the earth’s freshwater supply in the coming decades and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects that by 2050 global water demand will increase by 55 percent.

Mekorot says it will cost the world $800 billion in damages.

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| June 5, 2012
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Israel Water Technology Sparks Business Venture

Millionare Richard Branson has launched a new business venture, “Virgin Pure,” using technology imported from Israel.

 

Millionaire and entrepreneur Richard Branson has decided to launch a new business venture, “Virgin Pure,” using technology imported from Israel.

Branson recently visited the country and met with Israeli technology companies and scientists, leading him to pursue his most recent undertaking.

When Ofra Strauss, Chairman of the Strauss Group, handed him water that had been purified using technology her company invented, Branson decided to launch a venture of his own.

“Ofra showed me the machine in Israel and I wanted to buy one for our family. Continue Reading »

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| May 5, 2012
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Desalination program treading water

State Comptroller’s Report for 2012 criticizes government, officials for delays, irregularities in implementation of water desalination program

 

The State Comptroller’s Report for 2012 which was released on Tuesday revealed that delays in the erection of desalination plants are continuing. The report’s severe criticism of the desalination efforts is a continuation of the comptroller’s criticism in previous reports.

Desalination plant (Illustration)

A Desalination plant

The government, notes State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, committed to establishing desalination plants that would by 2013, produce 600 million cubic meters of water per year. Yet so far the plants have only managed to produce 300 million cubic meters.

“This is an ongoing governmental failure that impedes the public interest,” the report determined. Continue Reading »

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