Israel Embassy in New Delhi have announced that it will have a separate ‘Water Attache’ from January 2021.
- The objective behind this Water Attache is to help share their country’s best practices and technologies for advancements in India’s water management and agriculture sectors.
- The ‘Water Attache’ who will join the ‘Agriculture Attache’ who has been in New Delhi for many years .
- In agriculture, Israel’s drip irrigation method is popular in many parts of India.
- Israel was the partner country in India’s “water week” in 2019.
- During the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Israel in July 2017, India and Israel agreed to establish a ‘Strategic Partnership in Water and Agriculture’ in view of the centrality of these areas to development.
- Just a few years ago Israel was running out of water. Now it has a surplus. That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel’s meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.
- Israel has made water recycling an integral part of daily life.
- More than 80 per cent of household waste water is recycled, amounting to 400 million cubic meters a year. That ratio is four times higher than in any other country, according to Israel’s water authority.
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