With experience in developing water technologies spanning decades, Israel has now turned to marketing their products overseas with a specific goal of doubling exports in the sector to two billion dollars in two years.
The innovative products range from gadgets that make use of ultra-violet light to purify water to recycling systems that utilise millions of tiny, plastic rings to breed bacteria and break down organic waste matter.
Close to two-thirds of Israel is arid and this has made it a global leader in matters relating to recycling of water. The director of international investments at the Industry and Trade Ministry revealed that 75% of waste water is recycled and used to irrigate farming land.
Aqwise is one of the firms involved in making products for sewage treatment. It has come up with a technology where bacteria is bred and then used to decompose organic waste. The firm produced a water jet system that distributes biomass carriers through the sewage. The biomass carriers are simply tiny plastic rings which have big surface areas enveloped by various naturally occurring bacteria that feed on the organic matter in the sewage.
In a mechanism called Attached Growth Airlift Reactor or AGAR, numerous biomass carriers are released into the sewage and they eat away the sewage.
The system by Aqwise is already in use in over thirty plants spread all over the globe. One witness in the effectiveness of the innovation is Atlantium’s vice president of business development, Udi Leshem. He revealed that a waste recycling centre in Mexico had enhanced the daily recycling rate by over twenty thousand cubic metres after installing the product.
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