MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Hear theWord of the Lord — By Thomas Lieth
- FirstThessalonians 3 and the Rapture — By Dr. Ron J. Bigalke Jr.
- Popular Prophecy:CheckingDogmaTwice — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- Why Jerusalem is Jewish — By Arno Froese
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Analysis: Birthright Needs to Transform on Larger Scale
- Israel Praises Turkish Authority for Preventing Hezbollah Attack
- Relationship with American Jews Is Changing
- A Festival of Discrimination—Funded by the EU
- The Cyrus Cylinder
Israeli Technology to Aid Michigan
A water main in the US city of Seattle burst, buckling streets and causing water to flood an area of 10 blocks. Some eight to 10 homes were damaged, and it took workers hours to stop the flood since valves were buried underground.
About a week later, a water main break in Massachusetts caused major delays on the Interstate 91 from Springfield to Enfield. Hours later, about 2,500 West Lafayette, Indianapolis residents were under a “boil order” after yet another burst water pipe.
America's water infrastructure is aging, and experts are warning that accidents like this—that endanger both people’s lives and their livelihoods—are just the start. Now, however, help could be at hand, from Israel.
Israeli company Miya launched a new pilot initiative in the US called ‘Green jobs for blue waters’ to help replace aging water infrastructure and create jobs in the sector in Michigan.
Miya, which was set up by Israeli heiress Shari Arison, will work with Detroit’s Water Works Park, Michigan’s Water and Sewerage Department, and the city of Farmington Hills, to cut water losses in Detroit and Farmington Hills, and create jobs throughout the region.
Currently water works operators tend to miss major problems when it comes to finding faulty pipes and making repairs. But Miya’s know how and technology provides a package of tools and expertise including acoustic sensors, and technologies that can better control water pressure over an entire municipality.
Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm brought a delegation of Michigan businessmen to Israel for an economic investment trip.
“Michigan has the resources and Israel has the technology to create great synergy on this important issue,” Granholm tells ISRAEL21c.
The visit, she explains, highlighted some parallels between Israel—which was once reliant on agriculture and needed to diversify its economy—and Michigan.
“Not that long ago, this country faced similar economic challenges to what Michigan is experiencing now,” she says. “In the last decade, Israel has honed in on homeland security and defense and water technologies and has strengthened its economy, creating thousands of new jobs and lowering its unemployment rate. A reminder that we are on the right path in Michigan.”
The exposure of Israeli water technologies to Michigan seems to be paying off, and is already starting to create new jobs in Michigan.
http://www.israel21c.org, 26 May 2009
Israel is considered a “developing nation.” Yet she is able to assist a U.S. state, Michigan, in solving its water problems.
Israel’s lack of water has created innumerable inventions; they can stretch every drop of water. With the continuous growth of the population, water supply has increasingly become a significant issue, so much so that plans have been developed to import water from Turkey.
Apparently, Israel is the key to water because the future lies in Israel, as is proclaimed by the prophet Isaiah: “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose…And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes” (Isaiah 35:1, 7).