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Moto : Precise Irrigation from policy to field
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Israeli Model of Water Management to be adapted in India
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We could have have 800 Desalination plants
New Delhi, March 30 Expressing satisfaction over the robust G2G cooperation in the field of agriculture and defence the Israel Ambassador to India, Daniel Carmon said “that the new frontiers of cooperation with India are opening in the fields of water managament, Irrigation, desanitation and STP’s.”
The envoy said that several Indian companies are gearing up to showcase there technologies and workout the expertise to partner with several states.
“If you take the concept of collaboration in defence adaptive to other areas like we did in agriculture, the next big thing we would like to do would be in water,” Carmon told media persons here ahead of the India Water Week from April 4 for which Israel has been chosen as the partner country.
“We are already doing. We already have some success stories here in India,” he said.
“But the potential is so big and the need is so big and the interest of both countries is so big that we should and we can do much more.”
Carmon said that when President Pranab Mukherjee visited Israel in October last year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to share his country’s expertise in the areas of water management, recycling, desalination and irrigation.
He said that Israel gets about 500-600 mm of rainwater in a year “which is nothing when you compare to the need””.
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“We have a development laboratory in which we have research and development, in which we have developed technologies,” he said.
“Water is definitely one area in which we have developed so many new technologies.”
He said that Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel would lead an Israeli delegation, including experts in water technologies, for the India Water Week during the course of which a number of seminars and meetings have been planned.
Ariel, along with union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, will jointly inaugurate an exhibition and the Israeli pavilion at Pragati Maidan here on April 5.
The next day, the visiting minister will leave for Ladwa in Haryana where he will inaugurate a centre of excellence in agriculture that has been built with Israeli assistance.
Stating that agriculture and water were closely linked in terms of food security, Carmon said that Israel was a leader in drip irrigation technology.
He said that there was vast scope for cooperation between India and Israel in the area of water.“
“For example, here in India there are eight plants where Israeli technology desalinates water from the sea,” Carmon said.
“”Eight is nothing. We could have 800 plants,” he said