If You Want to Know How to Maximize Your Water, Ask the Israelis
Posted on | July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
Bloomberg has an interesting story about the business of squeezing the most out of that last drop of water. Talk about having skin in the arid land survival game!
Today, some 300 Israeli companies make equipment to deliver water or purify it with lasers or diffusion, putting them in a position to profit as climate change, population growth and food shortages strain supplies. With agriculture accounting for about two-thirds of global water use, the Israeli government predicts overseas sales of the technology will top $10 billion by 2017.
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July 31st, 2008 @ 10:54 am
Now if only TSA and DHS would talk with El Al about security…