Episode Details

Episode Topic: Understanding Water Diplomacy Between Israel and Jordan

Join NDI staff from the Jerusalem Global Center and a special guest from the U.S. State Department to discuss the standardization of a duel plumbing system with a gray water pipe (sinks/showers) and black water pipe (toilets). Black water goes to sludge treatment, but gray water is not nearly as expensive to clean and can then be used for agriculture. Israel reuses 85% of its water and began working on desalination twenty years ago and now has five desalination plants, with over 60% of its water coming from the Mediterranean.

Featured Speakers: 

• Gabriel Mitchell, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Notre Dame in Jerusalem
• Dr. Daniel Blumentha, Department of Energy (DOE) Attaché,U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/7b1e62. 

This podcast is a part of the Global Dialogues ThinkND Series titled “The Worsening Water Crisis”.

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