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The senior management of Raja Constanta, Romania’s largest water utility, visited Israel with an intention to implement Israeli water technologies to improve Romania’s infrastructure.  Currently only half the 22 million Romanians are connected to municipal water or wastewater systems.

Israel’s Desalitech won the Breakthrough Water Technology Company of the Year award at the 2016 Global Water Awards in Abu Dhabi.  Desalitech’s closed-circuit reverse osmosis desalination system counters the slow build-up of salinity in aquifers and waterways.

British engineering giant Dyson has linked up with Israel’s BreezoMeter to allow users of Dyson's new Pure Cool Link fan to compare indoor air quality, humidity, temperature and pollen count with outdoors. Nearly 9,500 Londoners die annually from exposure to pollutants.

Professor Jerson Kelman is CEO of SABESP - the water company for Sau Paulo, Brazil’s financial center, with a population three times that of Israel.  He has come to Israel to learn how Israeli tech can help SABESP overcome Sau Paulo’s water shortages.

A team of students from Israel’s Rothschild-Hashomron High School in Binyamina came second at the prestigious international FIRST Robotics Competition in St. Louis, USA.  Over 20,000 students from 24 countries pitted their robots against one another in completing set tasks.

New Israeli Education Ministry guidelines prohibit selling or serving of sweets, snacks, and sugary or fatty foods to school and kindergarten students throughout Israel.  Replacements include low-fat spreadable cheeses, avocado, whole-wheat pasta and bread, fruit and vegetables.

Israel-based Ecoppia is building a plant in India to manufacture its robotic solar cleaners at a new, state-of-the-art facility near Chennai.  Ecoppia’s robotic cleaning system uses controlled air flow to push the accumulated dirt off the solar panels

The technology of Israel’s Tipalti ensures that companies never make payments to individuals or companies that are on government watch lists. Tipalti did $2 billion of sales last year.

Israel Air Forces’ Aerial Maintenance Unit is using 3D printers to print aircraft parts in order to keep 30-year-old planes flying.  The technology has attracted original manufacturers Boeing and Lockheed to see how the upgrades can make the planes perform even better than when new.

Israel’s Eco Wave Power has completed the construction and entered the testing phase of its first commercial scale wave power plant in Gibraltar.  The $5 million, 5 Megawatt plant is expected to produce 15 percent of Gibraltar’s electricity within two years.