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GET Israel: Topic 9 – Sorek and overall desalination water supply in Israel

By Iphigenie Bera, Destiny Lara, Damien Koh Tze-In Introduction: On September 16th, 2022, the Israel GET group visited the Sorek Desalination Plant, the biggest...
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GET Israel: Topic 8 – Masada National Park and the Dead Sea

Water Management and Water Issues By Peter Pinder and Nikhil Sriram Masada National Park and the Dead Sea Day six was filled with adventure...
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GET Water Blog #7: Start-Up Nation Central

Start-Up Nation Central by Valeria Apolinario and Caroline Webster For our last official stop in Israel, we headed to Start-Up Nation Central (SNC) in...
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GET Water Blog #6: “Traditional, Not Primitive:” Project Wadi Attir and Sustainable Desert Cultivation

“Traditional, Not Primitive:” Project Wadi Attir and Sustainable Desert Cultivation By Kelly Gebman At the beginning of our visit, a Bedouin activist and founding...
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GET Water Blog #5: Visiting Israel’s Water Treatment Facility at Shafdan

Visiting Israel’s Water Treatment Facility at Shafdan By Caroline Webster and Grace Wanjiku Wainaina The Shafdan Wastewater Treatment centre is located on the outskirts...
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GET Water Blog #4: King Hezekiah’s Tunnel

King Hezekiah’s Tunnel By Alexandro Reyes  On Sunday, September 15th, we left Masada and made our way to Jerusalem, where we would learn about...
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GET Water Blog #3: Ancient Water System Models and the Dead Sea

Ancient Water System Models and the Dead Sea By Deogratias Mukuralinda and Hannah Paridis   Though we took the cable car going up, we...
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GET Water Blog #2: Revolutionizing Sustainable Agriculture

Revolutionizing Sustainable Agriculture by Morgan Gass and Helena Freire Haddad For the second half of our first whole day in Israel, we headed just...
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GET Water Blog #1: Continuing to Make the Desert Bloom

Continuing to Make the Desert Bloom by Valeria Apolinario and Carmen Awin-Ongya The first visit in our GET Trek to Israel was to the...
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2019 GET Water Student Travel Blogs

Israel – Global Engineering Trek (GET): Water Program Description This summer, a group of Northwestern freshmen and sophomores traveled to Israel as part of...
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