Israeli Technology Addressing the Global Water Crisis
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Water is life. We consume it. We use it to grow food. A dependable supply of clean water is essential to every facet of our contemporary life, from industry to energy production. But the fight for water will intensify as the world’s population rises and the climate deteriorates.
Surprisingly, Israel has converted old deserts into farmland and has enough water to give to other countries.
To find out more about the Israeli people and innovations that made this little desert country into a global leader in resolving the world’s water dilemma, let’s look over a list of a few Israeli innovative water companies.
Atmospheric Water Generator
Watergen develops energy-efficient, accessible solutions to collect clean and safe drinking water from the air. The company offers water-from-air units in different sizes that can serve a variety of needs and requires no infrastructure other than electricity or solar energy. The large-scale unit, which produces up to 5,000 liters of safe, clean drinking water per day, can potentially service entire cities, villages, factories, or off-grid settlements. The GEN-350 medium-scale unit produces up to 900 liters of water, and the Genny home unit produces up to 27 liters of water per day. The company is also integrating the atmospheric water generator into vehicles. The technology has been tailored to provide drivers and passengers with in-vehicle clean drinking water and can be used in washing sensors, cameras for autonomous vehicles, and other functionalities that require water injection.
Mobile Potable Water Treatment System
GAL Water Technologies is a supplier of water treatment systems for industry, agriculture, and disaster relief. The company’s solutions utilize technologies including media filtration, ion exchange, microfiltration, electrodeionization, ultra-filtration, gas disposal membranes, nanofiltration membranes, UV disinfection, reverse osmosis, and chemical-dispensing systems. The company’s GALMOBILE is an independent, integrated water purification vehicle that provides drinking water from any source at any time, anywhere. The goal of GALMOBILE is to help overcome water shortages in remote communities and provide immediate drinking water assistance during natural disasters. The system can be deployed in less than 30 minutes by two people.
Bulk Reduction of Leakage in Water Distribution Pipes
Curapipe developed the patented Trenchless Automated Leakage Repair (TALR), which is a solution for rapid bulk reduction of unsustainable leakage levels. It is designed to work along with ongoing active leakage management services and works well with installed network pressure reduction systems. As a standalone system, once launched into the treated pipe section, it self-detects water leaks and automatically seals and cures them. An isolated pipe section of mains and service pipes is a requirement. Actual levels of leakage are measured before and after the repair.
Converting Industrial Wastewater into Green Hydrogen
Purammon is focused on the research, development, design, and implementation of physicochemical wastewater treatment processes and systems, with special emphasis on ammonia, total nitrogen, and total organic carbon removal. Purammon has developed an electrochemical technology that enables green hydrogen to be produced from wastewater instead of fresh water. Its technology is designed to treat industrial wastewater at a lower cost and with better performance than conventional wastewater treatment solutions. The company’s wastewater-to-green-hydrogen technology has three major benefits for the emerging hydrogen economy. It significantly reduces the cost of green hydrogen; it enables green hydrogen to be produced at the same industrial facility where it is consumed, eliminating the need for costly transportation and infrastructure; and it avoids the impacts of conventional green-hydrogen production on freshwater resources. Purammon first commercialized its wastewater treatment technology in 2018 and currently has full-scale systems installed at some of the largest chemical companies in the world. The company is currently piloting its wastewater-to-hydrogen technology with a major environmental services provider in Israel.
Biological Water and Wastewater Treatment
BioCastle Water Technologies manufactures and sells a technology designed to bioengineer the water and wastewater treatment plant environment to achieve a process yield increase without having to upgrade infrastructure. The company’s Small Bioreactor Platform (SBP) technology integrates engineering and microbiology into a solution that facilitates a sufficient biomass of selected bacterial cultures. The SBP encases specific microorganism cultures specializing in the biodegradation of various contaminants, offering a reduced environmental footprint in comparison to other water treatment technologies. The technology enables BioCastle to get control over the bacterial culture type for implementation, the amount of selective biomass to be implemented, and the biomass implementation site and conditions. The company treats water biologically with 95% less infrastructure and 95% less operations, and it’s 100% sustainable.
Water-treatment Solutions for Municipal and Industrial Applications
IDE Technologies specializes in the development, engineering, construction, and operation of enhanced small to mega-sized seawater and brackish-water desalination solutions, industrial water treatment, and water reuse solutions. IDE has completed multiple large-scale membrane and thermal desalination projects and provides high-quality water to a wide range of customers, including municipalities, refineries, and power stations, as well as customers in the mining, oil, and gas industries.
Solutions for Water, Soil, and Air Pollution
Ayala Water & Ecology is the developer of the Natural Biological System (NBS), a sustainable technology for on-site treatment of sewage and waste streams, rehabilitation of affected water bodies, and the rejuvenation of watersheds. The NBS is used to holistically and simultaneously purify contaminated water, soil, and air. Each system is created from modular treatment compartments embedded in the natural topography to minimize energy requirements. The treatment compartments contain a combination of biotic and abiotic components, plants, and aggregates selected for their physical and chemical properties and varying internal hydraulic layouts. The NBS aims to change the global water-energy footprint, reduce dependence on energy and maintenance, free up water resources for on-site usage, and restore nature’s ability to preserve and protect itself. The PM-NBS is the company’s portable and modular version of the NBS. It is easy to transport and install anywhere in the world and could fill a major technical gap, especially in remote areas lacking good water and where conventional decentralized systems are not feasible due to technical and operational difficulties, a lack of reliable energy resources, the need for skilled technical teams, and cost.
Drip and Micro-irrigation Equipment
Rivulis Irrigation offers a full line of irrigation devices, including drip lines, drip tapes, filters, hoses and tubing, sprinklers, sprays, and valves. The company’s products are designed for the above-ground and subsurface application of water and nutrients directly to the root zone of every plant, resulting in greater yields using equal or lower amounts of water and nutrients compared to other water-distribution systems.
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