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Israel, the United States, Germany and Tanzania are collaborating to create clean drinking water

Ofir Amber
July 30, 2023
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Cooperation between non-profit organizations and government institutions from Israel, the USA, Germany and Tanzania with the aim of building an innovative water filtration system using ceramic filters in a school in Babati district reached its peak when a delegation of Engineers Without Borders-Israel from an important project in Tanzania

Struggles over rivers

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
July 1, 2023
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Following and because of global warming, by 2050 there will be about a billion people subject to disputes and struggles related to rivers, and this only in Africa

move with the climate

The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
June 14, 2023

The children of the Maasai tribe herd the cattle Illustration: depositphotos.com

What about the anointing of kings and the exploitation of nature, p

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
December 23, 2022
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The African Zabads are caught in a bar to extract the musk oil that has been used since ancient times to anoint kings. Is it possible to develop a more humane method?

Water and education in Tanzania against the background of one of the worst droughts the country has ever known

Ofir Amber
December 2, 2022
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A project carried out by members of the Africa team of Engineers Without Borders Israel - Tel Aviv contributes to the supply of clean drinking water to rural areas in Africa, and has been operating continuously since 2013 in the Babati district of northern Tanzania. The project provides water to approximately 5,000 children

The rise and fall of the Nile princess

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
July 13, 2022
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In recent decades - after reaching a peak due to the population of Lake Victoria with the predatory fish that was not there before, the fishing productivity in Lake Victoria is decreasing due to overfishing and mortality due to water pollution. The fish population, which for about 70 years constituted the bulk of the fishing harvest and the bulk of the income for those living around the lake, is dwindling and the fishermen around Lake Victoria are suffering

Israelis voluntarily built a water system for 5,000 children in Tanzania

Ofir Amber
June 24, 2022
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The Africa team, Engineers Without Borders Israel Tel Aviv branch recently returned from a two-week mission in Tanzania. The project deals with the supply of clean drinking water to rural areas in Africa and has 20 volunteers from diverse fields who manage the project from end to end throughout the year

Pisgah to stop the desert

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
June 12, 2022
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According to the head of the climate services of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) "even when the amounts of rain remain the same, because of the warming water evaporates and the area dries out

Adventures in Africa: Prof. Yoel Rek of Uni' Tel Aviv paid tribute to Richard Leakey, the naturalist who died this week

Avi Blizovsky
January 7, 2022
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Leakey knew how to discover fossils of ancient human species even as a child, as the son of famous parents, but he also cared about preserving nature and fighting ivory traders, received two kidney transplants and a liver transplant, lost his legs in the crash of his plane, and made important discoveries in the field of human evolution

A polluting controller?

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
December 8, 2021
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In the past I have already referred to the need to reduce meat consumption in the face of the significant differences between the industrial form of farming in large farms in Western countries and nomadic herders, mainly in African countries. They are still not considered