Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Locals learn from Israel's water conservation policies



Tate and Albuquerque leaders are looking for new ways to conserve water. It's something Israel has done for decades -- and now local officials are turning to the Israelis for help.

"Austin Reed is here to show us what "they" do that works. Austin?"

"Israel recycles 80% of its water --- here in New Mexico it's an average of just 4%, but our leaders here say we can and must do better."

State and local politicians. business owners and 10 water recycling companies from Israel gathered in downtown Albuquerque for an all important energy conference. We created the technologies in order to ensure we will have good and solid agriculture, portable water for our people and the new thing is Israel is now producing water the state of Israel says between drip irrigation, a number of massive water recycling facilities, plus big reservoirs that help save and conserve the water so it can be recycled -- has saved Israel billions of gallons of water each and every year.