By Orton Kiishweko
Filtering machines at the IDE Technologies first and world’s largest desalination plant at Ashkelon city near Tel Aviv whose 100 million m3 per year capacity makes it the world’s largest plant using the RO technology.
Water and environmental technologies are increasingly gaining attention in the world’s development strategies and economy.
Water, apart from being a human consumption, is a resource on which Agriculture significantly depends through state of the art irrigation in countries like Israel.
Agriculture in Israel is advanced, with all sorts of opportunities and possibilities, inspite of its desert status.
For example, the country’s agriculture sector is an intensive system of production, starching from the need to overcome the scarcity in natural resources, especially water and arable land, particularly south of the country.
Just outside Telviv, the capital of Israel, a one and a half hour drive from Ashdod city to Dimona, is one big and wonderful irony,-with the desert stretch having significant distances of successful farms, all green under irrigation technology.
There is a sense of possibility with the kind of water technologies being developed at the centre of dry lands to get high productivity.
The Israel NEWTech project manager Gilad Peled told this reporter in Tel Aviv that the constant growth in agricultural production is due to the close cooperation between researchers and farmers.
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