Utah water officials and state lawmakers traveled to the Negev Desert to learn about agriculture in some of the planet’s harshest conditions. Read about their trip.
Israel’s advances in technology and water development are something Utah leaders are looking at closely as they try to deal with drought and the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry reads an Israeli nursery rhyme to the men and women who oversee Utah s water systems as they ride in a van headed to government offices in Jerusalem.
Founded in 1948 as a Jewish state, Israel had to find its own water. The country treats water as public property controlled by the state there are no private water rights.