Experts in water treatment from Israel have offered their assistance to help address water crisis and bring back to life polluted rivers in the country.
Besides cleaning up the Ganga, Israel has also offered to streamline water management and distribution services. Israel is known to treat 92 per cent of its waste-water and reuses 75 per cent in agriculture.
Two leading Israeli water experts, Oded Distel, Head of Israel NewTech Programme — National Water and Renewable Energy Programme in the Ministry of Economy and Yoram Oren, from Ben Gurion University, will conduct a seminar for the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. They will examine specific fields for collaboration and will also provide insights on the key issues of water problems. The Israeli officials have recently met their counterparts in the Water Resources Ministry .
Efforts to showcase the best water conservation and management practices are on for the runup to “Watec 2015” Conference on Water Technologies and Environmental Control to be hosted by Israel in October.
According to the experts, Nano-filtration is a good solution for developing countries as India, where there is a crisis in drinking water. According to them, it is relatively inexpensive and unlike other water purification techniques, does not deprive the water of essential minerals, as calcium from water. It also used relatively less energy as compared to other techniques.