Having successfully dealt with its own water crisis, Israel is sharing its newly acquired water technologies with senior American officials that arrived in Jerusalem to learn from teams of local experts how to conserve, reuse and desalinate water.
By Ilana Curiel
What technology has the potential of generating Israel NIS 6 billion (about $1.5 billion) from exports? After struggling with a water shortage for years, Israel is now considered a water superpower – mostly thanks to its Water Authority – and representatives of many states and governments around the world have been arriving to learn from the desert country which succeeded in overcoming its dry starting point.
Sign of California’s Drought – Photo: AFP
The Milken Innovation Center at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS) hosted a conference this week which was attended by senior Israeli and Californian officials seeking to solve the crisis, following a memorandum of understanding signed between Israel and California.
California has been dealing with one of the worst water crises in its history. Continue Reading »