The Central Asian Institute for Environmental Research (CAIER) was visited by representatives of Israel's national water corporation Mekorot, led by the company's CEO Amit Lang.
The purpose of the visit was to exchange technologies and experience in the field of sustainable water resource management.
The business meeting was opened by Asel Tasmagambetova, ecologist and founder of CAIER, who told her foreign colleagues about the Institute's many years of research work in the field of water resource protection. The Israeli specialists highly appreciated the technical capabilities of the CAIER laboratory, and were particularly interested in the Institute's patented developments in the processing of oil production waste, the purification of water from heavy metals, and a device for collecting rainwater.
The Central Asian Institute of Environmental Research has been conducting research in the field of water scarcity for more than 10 years, and the Institute's scientists have published a number of scientific studies on the state of transboundary rivers.
In turn, foreign colleagues said that since its founding in 1937, Mekorot has become a key player in Israel's water supply, providing about 80% of drinking water and managing a huge infrastructure: thousands of kilometres of pipes, dozens of desalination and treatment plants, and monitoring and control systems.
The company is actively developing new technologies: water reuse, hydrogen, solar and hydro energy, as well as intelligent water system management.