YOU MUST HAVE NOTICED that the biblical word "forty" means a lot; a long time; positively ancient; out-of-code; well passed its sell-by-date.
But there's nothing antique or tedious about 40 of Israel's top water and sustainable energy 'start-ups' which recently exhibited at the annual WATEC water conference in Tel Aviv, drawing hundreds of potential clients worldwide towards an innovative approach to water use and management.
First to realise the 'pipe-dream' was Netafim which devised drip irrigation. Now the current class of start-ups like Takadu has developed a way of allowing water utilities to detect and send alerts about leaks in water networks.
Applied Cleantech, which views sewage as a treasure trove(!), has a wastewater treatment process that recycles municipal sewage into usable commodities while Solaris Synergy has developed a system of mirrors that concentrates the sun on solar collectors that can float on any body of water.
Oded Distel, director of NewTech, an initiative of the Israel Ministry of Industry and Trade, says: "The know-how, experience, technology, managerial skills, legal framework [for the water industry] - everything was developed here purely out of necessity."
With thanks to Israel 21c
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