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^{Chapman’s News & Ideas} Israeli Tech Can Slake World’s Water Thirst

_{Bruce Chapman
May 15, 2015
Economics, Environment, Foreign Policy, Science, Technology & Democracy}

Nursery flowers watered with drip irrigation in Israel

California wastes water and blames the drought for the resulting shortages. Arizona is better off. Israel is the world leader, however, in water-related technology. Most of the Middle East exports terrorists; Israel exports technology to create a more verdant and abundant future.

Here is a series of connected articles that explain Israel’s innovations in drip-irrigation (much discussed also in George Gilder’s The Israel Test), drought resistant crop development, desalinization, squeezing water out of dew and creating winter-fed cisterns like the Nabateans used 2000 years ago in the “rose red” city of Petra.

The Israelis are having another WATEC (Water Technology) conference on their water technologies October 15. Look for a lot of Californians.

Image: Wikimedia Commons