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California drought: What would Israel do?
Jweekly ^ | May 14, 2015 | By Dan Pine

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 water’s 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. It’s one of many potential water-saving solutions to come out of Israel’s high-tech dream factory.

This could make a difference in California. With the state’s 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 California’s 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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TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; US: California
KEYWORDS: bds; boycott; california; conservation; divest; drought; hydroponics; irrigation; israel; neotop; sanctions; topitup; trickleirrigation; water
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To: ansel12

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.


41 posted on 05/26/2015 10:36:11 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( Marbury vs.Madison was the biggest power grab in American history.)
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To: Daveinyork

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.


42 posted on 05/26/2015 10:39:58 AM PDT by ansel12
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