赛斯•西格尔(Seth M. Siegel)是作家、律师、企业家,也是美国外交关系协会成员。西格尔建立了几家非常成功的企业,并与工业和政府进行合作。在此期间,他发现技术革新是改善资源短缺的核心。西格尔的文章常见于《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《洛杉矶时报》等,并设有专栏“以色列的水源,中东的和平”,阐述以色列水资源的建设对区域和平的重要性。
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"in early 1990... The Chinese proposed that Israel send an irrigation and water utilization expert to Bejing... The premise was that this first public acknowledgement of Israel would not be government to government, as with an exchange of ambassadors, but would be civil society to civil society --wat"
"During his term as economy minister, Education Minister Naftali Bennett launched the future Shouguang Water City with the municipality’s leadership, while visiting the region in November 2014. Chinese officials followed up with a visit to Israel this March, to explore some of the water innovation av"
"(Under the shah) the majority of the water projects in Iran from 1962 until the 1979 Islamic Revolution were managed by Israelis. Ancient Persia had a sophisticated, gravity-based water system used for irrigation utilizing vertical shafts called qanat that were dug on a slight decline from an underg"