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Cooperation in the field of environmental research has the longest tradition and goes back to 1974. It includes water technology, exploration of the global water circle and marine research.
The priorities of this area of research are the treatment, storage and recycling of wastewater, groundwater analysis and decontamination, drinking water purification, health issues related to drinking water supply, and integrated water resources management. The two countries intend to strengthen their industrial R&D cooperation in the field of water technologies in 2008 by carrying out joint 2+2 projects.
In addition to technological subject areas, research is also being carried out on the global water cycle and the way in which it is being affected by global change. This project is part of the GLOWA programme, which aims to secure the availability, quality and distribution of water, a resource that is essential for life, by means of scientific strategies. The GLOWA Jordan River Project (JR) is a sub-project in which German, Israeli and Jordanian partners are working together. It is an interdisciplinary project that aims to evaluate the vulnerability of humans and ecosystems. Various methods of water and land management and their ecological and socio-economic effects are being examined. The hope is that the results will be transferable to other semi-arid regions with transboundary water resources. GLOWA JR is entering its implementation phase during the German-Israeli Year of Science 2008.
A further collaborative project, which is funded by the BMBF and has been running in the Lower Jordan Valley since 2006, is SMART - Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies. It is a multidisciplinary and multilateral project that aims to develop transferable approaches for integrated water resources management in semi-arid regions. In order to achieve this, a comprehensive examination is being made of all exploitable and previously unused water resources within the project area, including groundwater, wastewater, strongly saline water and floodwater. Efforts are being made to ensure that the project is coordinated with other projects in the region, such as GLOWA, and that the research results are exchanged.
Outstanding research: Apart from research on "blue" water (groundwater and surface water used by humans), one scientific innovation of the GLOWA JR project is the investigation of "green" water (water found in natural ecosystems and forests) and its possible utilization in agriculture. GLOWA JR is also working on the possibility of desalinizing and reusing wastewater of different degrees of purification. In a further project, the use of the Mar Saba/Feshka region as a possible source of freshwater for the Palestinian population in the Jericho area is being investigated.
The "German-Israeli Cooperation in Marine Sciences and Geosciences" action plan, which was passed in 2002, marked the beginning of a realignment of the collaboration. The six collaborative projects that have been underway since 2006 focus on the interdependencies between sea, land and atmosphere, seismic and other natural risks, and changes in marine ecosystems as indicators of global change.
A bilaterally financed exchange programme for young scientists is to be launched in the autumn of 2008.
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