Watergen is an Israeli company whose atmospheric water generator (AWG) pulls water from the air and turns it into clean drinking water. The machine can make as much as 800 liters (211 gallons) of water per day. The machine needs only solar panels to fuel itself.
Now the company is donating an AWG to a neighborhood in
Gaza.
“Responding in accordance with our belief that every
human being has a fundamental right to clean drinking water, we are helping
some of Israel’s next-door neighbors gain access to fresh water, a resource
that is lacking in Gaza,” the company said in a statement.
Gaza’s main water source is its coastal aquifer, but over-extraction
is rapidly depleting it. Pollution and seawater have corrupted the aquifer as
well; only 4 percent of its water is safe to drink.
Israel’s Avara Institute for Environmental Studies and the
Palestinian NGO Damour for Community Development have teamed with Watergen to
provide the machine.
The Avara Institute director said, “The introduction of Watergen into Gaza is not only a proof of concept for a cutting edge technology but a proof of concept that Palestinians and Israelis can do more than launch attacks at each other. We can, instead, work together to improve lives, solve humanitarian problems, build trust, and restore hope.”
Being a conduit rather than a container of blessing
I have led more than thirty study tours to the Middle East.
Each time, I am impressed by the desire of the Palestinians and Israelis I meet
to work together for the common good. In my experience, the political extremes
that tend to dominate the news do not represent the broad middle. Watergen’s
AWG is just one example of such intention.
Israel was always intended to be a force for global good.
When the Lord called Abraham to follow him, he promised: “In you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). The Lord called
Israel to be a conduit of his work in the nations…
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