By Maurice Picow

A major problem in the Palestinian Authority is wastewater treatment. In fact, so little sewage water gets treated that most of it just sits in reservoirs, seeping into the ground and polluting fresh water. An Israeli company is now putting politics aside to treat water for a Palestinian village.

Israeli company IDE is expanding its foreign operations by signing a deal with China’s large Tianjin SDIC electricity company to build four water desalination plants.