Posted on 05/22/2015 1:08:58 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
From a distance, the reservoir appears topped by a flotilla of rubber duckies.
On closer inspection, the waters surface is packed with thousands of free-floating, 13-inch plastic balls, clustered to form an undulating cover.
Developed by the Israeli startup Neotop (formerly known as Top-It-Up), the mass of balls serves as a floating cooling tower, reducing surface temperatures, algae and evaporation up to 95 percent. Its one of many potential water-saving solutions to come out of Israels high-tech dream factory.
This could make a difference in California. With the states reservoirs at historic lows the two biggest, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, both down 40 percent every drop counts.
Living in a land of permanent water scarcity, Israelis grow up with a credo of water conservation. The country pioneered drip irrigation and wastewater recycling. As California bakes in its fourth year of exceptional drought the worst stretch in 1,200 years Israel has much to offer by way of remedies.
Sectors of Californias agriculture industry, such as grape growers, long ago took up Israeli-style drip irrigation. And this fall, the largest ocean desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, a project designed and being built by IDE Technologies of Israel, is set to open near San Diego. . .
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I’m fine. I have old shower heads and they work fine, and when get a new one, I just drill it out, and it works fine, and the PC regulators can go to hell.
LOL, I’m glad that as a Master plumber I don’t have all the problems with these decades old low flow requirements that a few hard heads here do.
I just look for modern products that work well.
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