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Looking to Israel for Water Scarcity Know-How

Looking to Israel for Water Scarcity Know-How

April 22, 2015

Desert & Water Research

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles — For help facing its worst drought in centuries, California should look to a country that beat its own chronic water shortage: Israel.

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Prof. Eilon Adar

But, no one said it’s going to be easy.

“Technology is not good enough,” says Prof. Eilon Adar, director of BGU’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research and expert in arid zones hydrology and Middle East water issues.

“You have to change some of the regulation. You have to impose more limitations on water.”

Israelis’ close attention to rainfall and drought comes from an education and culture that teaches them the importance of every drop in an arid region. With no end in sight for California’s drought, Prof. Adar says Californians would do well to adopt a similar attitude.

“You take an eight-year-old boy, you pump into his head that he has to save water as a scarce national resource,” says Adar. “In 10 years’ time, these boys are 18 years old and they get it. It’s in their blood.”

From water recycling to taking the salt out of plentiful seawater, a recent Jewish Journal article highlights five ways Californians can benefit from Israel’s water scarcity know-how.

Read more on the Jewish Journal website >>