"Potent symbols of Israel’s battle with nature.... science, technology, and, yes, a good amount of chutzpah, the arid country has figured out what few other desert regions have: how to squeeze enough water from a parched landscape to sustain a nation.... “The main war in Israel, the war against the desert”.... the sense of urgency driving innovation in Israel.... the need for clean, fresh water is growing around the world, so much that analysts predict the search for water in the 21st century will become as vital — and lucrative — as the quest for oil in the 20th.... Israel could dominate the global industry.... Israel has succeeded in forcing the desert to recede.... transform a desert ecosystem into an unnatural oasis.... Israel’s preoccupation with water has spanned thousands of years.... has developed very efficient processes for treating sewage and industrial wastewater and removing salt from sea water.... It has become the modern version of the land of milk and honey."
Can they piss in a pump like Costner, or is there already something we are not being told about our water supply (add it to the list of concerns about food, air, and soil contamination, the real environmental threats, not fart-misting)?
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Thus we get this front-page feature that is nothing more than a business promotion and public relations pitch for Israel.
I will have a few remarks and highlights; however, I will not be delving too deeply the article.
"In Israel, water where there was none; Necessity and ingenuity made Israelis leaders in water technology. Now, seeing vast global potential, they are teaming up with Mass. innovators" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff, November 17, 2013 A
TIR FOREST, Israel — On the chalky lower slopes of the Hebron Hills, in the midst of the scorched Israeli desert, there is an expanse known as “Green land,” where grapes grow lush on the vine, fruit orchards flourish, and a man-made forest of more than 4 million trees rises toward the sky.
Called Yatir, the forest and the vineyards it surrounds are potent symbols of Israel’s battle with nature. With science, technology, and, yes, a good amount of chutzpah, the arid country has figured out what few other desert regions have: how to squeeze enough water from a parched landscape to sustain a nation.
“This is the main war in Israel,” said Ya’acov Ben Dor, managing director at Yatir Winery, which uses 13.2 million gallons of water a year in an area that gets less rainfall than most parts of Texas, “the war against the desert.”
Talk about internalizing the values of your masters and $pon$ors! I don't have to comment on the choice of terminology; it's self-evident.
Israel, hoping to build on its home-grown success, is now turning to Massachusetts as an ally in this contest between nature and technology as rising temperatures, spreading deserts, growing populations, and pollution make water an increasingly precious commodity around the world. Attracted by the state’s technical know-how, innovative culture, and access to world markets, Israeli companies are investing, relocating, and seeking partnerships in Massachusetts to further advance their technologies and build a US platform from which to launch their global ambitions.
Is that last phrase just a little scary or what? Israel want's to control the global water supply -- for your own good, of course. (Never you mind those thirsty Palestinians down the road yonder)
In Massachusetts, state officials and entrepreneurs see collaboration with Israel as an opportunity to build another world-class technology sector, one that will create potable water from the ocean; nurture crops with treated sewage; manage water quality with software; and mine for water in much the same way precious gems are unearthed.
So how much tax loot will Massachusetts taxpayers be forced to fork over and pipeline to Israel?
The payoff could be huge. The global water industry today generates revenues of up to $600 billion a year, according to Boston market intelligence firm Lux Research Inc., and is projected to grow to $700 billion by the end of the decade.
“We’ve done it in IT. We’ve done it in biotech. We can do it in water,” said Richard K. Sullivan Jr., the state’s secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs. “In terms of growing [an industry] we do it better than anybody else.”
The challenges, however, are many. Massachusetts has several dozen water technology firms that make filters, control systems, and other equipment, but until recently the sector was so disjointed it could hardly be described as a cluster — the dense concentration of businesses in a single industry, such as technology in Kendall Square and Silicon Valley.
As the sector tries to come together, it still must overcome fierce competition from established water industry hubs in places such as Singapore.
Finally, with plentiful rain and abundant streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds, Massachusetts lacks the sense of urgency driving innovation in Israel.
But the need for clean, fresh water is growing around the world, so much that analysts predict the search for water in the 21st century will become as vital — and lucrative — as the quest for oil in the 20th....
“Israel has invented for its own sake,” Governor Deval Patrick said in an interview. “We can invent for the world’s sake.”
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The collection of white pipes, black tanks, and a control box beneath a metal canopy caught the imagination of Alicia Barton during a trade mission to Israel in December. The system recovers water from sewage in a single process that is more efficient, less energy-intensive, and less costly than existing technologies, which need several stages to treat wastewater.
This, thought Barton, chief executive of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, could be part of the state’s future. “We know that we have companies that can build those technologies,” she said.
The installation, at a wastewater treatment plant near Tel Aviv, is a pilot project of Desalitech, an Israeli company that recently opened its US headquarters in Newton. Desalitech, viewed by industry analysts as an up-and-coming water technology firm, has developed very efficient processes for treating sewage and industrial wastewater and removing salt from sea water.
Israel’s preoccupation with water has spanned thousands of years, as evidenced by the stone ruins of aqueducts and cisterns dating back to the Roman Empire and earlier....
Yeah, even if the Khazarian usurpers have only been there 70 years or so.
Some 2,700 years later, Israel has succeeded in forcing the desert to recede.
Are you tired of the heroic Israelis against all odds narrative yet, because I sure as hell am.
Since independence in 1948, cultivated agricultural land has nearly doubled while forested land has increased more than twentyfold, to nearly 274,000 acres from about 13,000, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. Satellite images show a nation that is now largely green.
The transformation began in the 1950s with the construction of Israel’s National Water Carrier, a pipeline that transports water south from the Sea of Galilee — Israel’s main source of fresh surface water — into the Negev Desert. Around the same time, an engineer named Simcha Blass was developing a system of spiral plastic tubing that would revolutionize agriculture by nourishing plants drop-by-drop.
He turned to farmers at Kibbutz Hatzerim to prove his invention’s usefulness, forming a partnership with them that spawned Netafim Ltd., today the world’s leading maker of drip irrigation systems. Go anywhere in Israel, and Netafim’s products snake around trees lining city sidewalks, water orchid farms, and feed landscaping at local parks.
“We say necessity is the mother of all invention, and in our case this is true,” said Naty Barak, chief sustainability officer at Netafim. “We were farmers without water in a desert.”
Six wastewater treatment plants stretch the country’s resources even further. They clean sewage, which is then sent to one of nine facilities that disinfect the wastewater, making it sanitary enough to irrigate crops. Nearly 95 billion gallons of water — roughly 75 percent of Israel’s sewage — is reclaimed this way each year.
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Must be where the other 25 percent went.
The great and generous Zionist Jews of Israel can't help 'em out there?
But perhaps no technology has done more to satisfy Israel’s thirst than desalination. Five massive plants dot the country’s coastline, sucking billions of gallons of water from the Mediterranean each year.
“No country that is close to the sea shouldn’t have water,” said Ron Yachini, vice president of business development at IDE Technologies Ltd., the company that built three of Israel’s largest desalination plants.
Unless they are Palestinian.
Oh, right, they don't officially have a country.
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Despite so much progress, water is still on every Israeli’s mind.
I agree it does seem like a lot of Israelis have water on the brain.
Regular news reports and a Twitter feed provide updates on the levels of the Sea of Galilee. Many older Israelis still recall the government campaign decades ago that urged people to “save water, shower with a friend.” Conservation-minded citizens, meanwhile, wonder if such a scarce resource should be exploited through technology to transform a desert ecosystem into an unnatural oasis.
Neighboring countries, such as Jordan and Syria, have similar concerns, questioning whether Israel takes a disproportionate share of common resources, such as the Jordan River, which feeds the Sea of Galilee. Such tensions have erupted in violence in the past, including the Six Day War of 1967, which was fought in part over water supplies.
The only mention of Israeli's possibly stealing water in vague and ambiguous terms -- as if the AmeriKan media were getting millions of dollars to get Israel's version of events publicized.
But as those debates rage at home, water technology companies are looking beyond Israel, seeking opportunities in the growing need for water as the global population increases. In the 20th century, noted Dominic Waughray, head of environmental initiatives at the World Economic Forum, global population quadrupled, but water use grew by a factor of nine.
“We have this success story of a rising middle class — people getting richer, using more paints, more cosmetics, and having more appliances,” Waughray said. “The faster our economy grows, the thirstier it is.”
How odd considering AmeriKa's middle class is disappearing.
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Booky Oren, the bespectacled 54-year-old, is a former executive chairman of Israel’s national water utility and onetime leader of the World Bank’s task force on innovation in the sector. When he talks water, others drink it in. For years, he has focused on one problem: launching Israel’s water technology industry onto the global stage. Massachusetts, he believes, can provide the platform.
He wants to pi$$ in taxpayers mouths.
In 2011, Oren argued that Massachusetts and Israel would be natural partners in such an endeavor because of their track records of nurturing innovation in other industries such as technology, life sciences, and alternative energy....
Two years later, Massachusetts has begun to attract Israeli water firms to complement a $4 billion cluster of home-grown water technology companies and global firms with local offices. The sector includes engineering and consulting operations, investment firms, and research operations, including Siemens Water Technologies in Lowell, which offers water treatment services; and CDM Smith Inc., a global consulting, engineering, and construction firm based in Cambridge.
Desalitech, the Israeli desalination company that moved to Massachusetts, recently landed a contract with the Los Angeles County sanitation districts to launch a pilot project to treat sewage. The company has already installed a water purification system in Massachusetts to water the greens of the Kittansett Club golf course in Marion. Desalitech chief executive Nadav Efraty said the system began operating last month.
“If Massachusetts wants to be a player, they need to be a test bed for young companies and they need to invest,” Efraty said. If that happens, he added, “endless companies are going to stream here.”
To ensure that outcome, state and water sector leaders have spent the past months building the foundations of a new industry group, the New England Water Innovation Network, which will connect firms with laboratories and facilities, such as the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant, that can be used to test, prove, and commercialize new products. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist plan to award tens of thousands of dollars in grants to Israeli-Massachusetts water industry collaborations.
That's all? He better get that prostate checked.
If this nascent partnership can combine Israel’s innate understanding of water issues with Massachusetts’ technological nimbleness and market savvy, it could dominate the global industry, many sector leaders believe.
Consider again, the Yatir Forest, on the edge of the unforgiving Negev Desert. When Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, floated the idea of a man-made forest in the dry expanse, many Israeli scientists scoffed at the idea. So Ben-Gurion found others to research techniques for planting and nurturing seedlings; Yatir’s first trees were planted in the mid-1960s.
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Is it all just another lie?
Today, the once-barren land is also alive with farms, fulfilling Ben-Gurion’s vision, as the Bible says, of making the desert “blossom as a rose.”
Now the Globe has even gone to adopting Israel's version of the Bible.
Fruit trees, heavy with nectarines, peaches, and olives, stretch toward the horizon. Strawberries grow plump in row after row of bushes. Tomatoes and grapes ripen on their vines.
Never you mind the Palestinian stuff the Zionist zettlers have burned down or the produce that rots due to Israeli customs.
It has become the modern version of the land of milk and honey, much of it nurtured, drop-by-drop, from water reclaimed from Tel Aviv’s sewage.
Yeah, not stolen from Palestinians or anyone else, as the double entendre of spurting spew gushes forth in a climactic orgasm!
Globe reporter Erin Ailworth reported this story as part of the International Center for Journalists “Bringing Home the World” program, which funded her trip to Israel.
Now we under$tand the tone and tenor of the article even more.
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A call for greener investments
Maybe it's a good idea, but I'm tired of the hot air after I $ee where all the credits, $ubsidies, and grants go.
Wind power now competitive with conventional sources
It's the $ame old $tory: promi$ed $avings in the future, increa$ed co$ts now.
Natural gas costs will push electric rates up
And that was supposed the be the new clean and abundant $avior!
Never you mind the fracking or oil leaking into the harbor from an illegal vessel.
