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BGU Represents Eilat in California Water Task Force

BGU Represents Eilat in California Water Task Force

October 22, 2014

Desert & Water Research

Jewish Journal — On the heels of a cooperative agreement signed in March between the governments of Israel and California, the cities of Los Angeles and Eilat built on a 55-year sister-city relationship, holding an inaugural task force meeting October 20 at Los Angeles City Hall.

Prof. Eilon Adar

Prof. Eilon Adar

The gathering, which was led by Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, focused on technology that Israel has successfully implemented to conserve, reuse and purify water in a region with an arid climate and scant rainfall.

Prof. Eilon Adar, director of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at BGU, presented to the task force a description of how Israel has tackled its water problem, from purifying wastewater to capturing rainwater.

“If we managed to overcome this problem in Israel, in the Middle East, it can be done almost anywhere else in the world,” says Prof. Adar.

He emphasized, to a somewhat skeptical task force, that desalination should be a tool in any water policy for a region with a growing population and limited groundwater resources.

“Israel has largely solved their [water] problem,” says task force member, Paul Koretz. “We haven’t, and there are a lot of things I believe we can learn from Israel.”

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