The Palestinian Federation of Renewable Energy Industries elects Engineer Anan Anabtawi as Chairman and sets a work agenda to address challenges english.pnn.ps - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from english.pnn.ps Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gaza City – Water in the Gaza Strip is mostly undrinkable and loaded with health hazards.
Large-scale desalination plants, funded by international donors and private businesses struggling to mitigate the crisis, are in full swing in the besieged Palestinian enclave. But a new high-tech effort is coming from an unlikely source: a company based in Israel.
Israel’s crippling 14-year blockade has worsened the water disaster facing Gaza residents, with key materials and equipment needed to produce potable water withheld from the coastal enclave.
A Russian-Israeli billionaire – shocked by images of children filling water in plastic containers from a street vendor – decided to act.
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Published on: Wednesday, January 06, 2021
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Watergen has developed atmospheric water generators that can produce 5,000 to 6,000 litres of drinking water per day, depending on the air’s humidity, and donated two machines to the Gaza Strip.
GAZA CITY: The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air.
Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007, is the brainchild of a Russian-Israeli billionaire, Michael Mirilashvili.
The company he heads, Watergen, has developed the atmospheric water generators that can produce 5,000 to 6,000 litres (1,300 to more than 1,500 gallons) of drinking water per day, depending on the air’s humidity.