Canada to help Israel conserve water
September 1, 2008 by admin
Filed under World's Water
The North American land of many lakes and seemingly unending cascades of waterfalls has decided to help drought-stricken Israel try and conserve water.
A delegation of Israeli water experts led by Jewish National Fund head Efi Stenzler and Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon brought back a cooperation agreement with the Canadian province of Manitoba late last week. Manitoba, with over 100,000 lakes, stands among the best at water conservation in the world.
After hearing from the 11-man Israeli delegation at an international conference on water and conservation which they hosted, Manitoba Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced that she would be sending the province’s experts to teach Israel about conservation. In return, Israeli experts would teach their Manitoban counterparts how to purify polluted water.
The delegation also snagged a boon for Israel’s universities. Melnick budgeted $250,000 a year in scholarships to bring Manitoban students to Israel to study water engineering and water purification. An international youth movement will be set up to champion water conservation as well.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
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Thats fine, as long as we help the original inhabitants of the region as well.