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Promoting Green Jobs and Exports

Promoting Green Jobs and Exports. A Green water Economy in Israel. Yedidya Sinclair, Arbel Youval and Efrath Silver FoEME, 2011. Question: What would be the benefits to Israel of expanding water saving programs in the realm of a) creating more green jobs and b) increasing export earnings?.

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Promoting Green Jobs and Exports

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  1. Promoting Green Jobs and Exports A Green water Economy in Israel. Yedidya Sinclair, Arbel Youval and Efrath Silver FoEME, 2011

  2. Question: What would be the benefits to Israel of expanding water saving programs in the realm of a) creating more green jobs and b) increasing export earnings?

  3. Policy Options for Water Conservation inIsrael: • Based on 2007-2008 national water budget and master plans projected to 2020

  4. Areas of Water Saving PotentialWith Estimated Level of Annual Water Savings With Medium Implementation by 2020 • Public education and awareness raising. 101 MCM/Year • Substituting More Water Efficient Plants in Public and Private Gardens. 46 MCM/Year • Implementing the Water Authority’s Plan to Reduce Wastage and Leakage in Local Water Corporations. 73 MCM/Year. • Legalizing and Encouraging Grey Water Recycling. 103 MCM/Year.

  5. 2011: 270 MCM/Year 2020: 700 MCM/ Year Increase of 430 MCM/Year 2011-2020 1000 workers over 3 years/plant 200 skilled, 800 construction Ongoing operation, 75/plant. 3 new plants by 2020 225 full time permanent jobs. Average 300 short term jobs (20% are skilled/80% construction mostly by foreign workers. Desalination Projections

  6. Employment and costs by water policy measure

  7. The Global Water Market • $500 Billion/Year • Increasing at 7%/Year • 4500 Billion MCM/Year • Increasing at 2%/Year (McKinsey and Co. 2009)

  8. Israel’s Share • 2 Billion Metres Cubed/Year. • $2 billion/p.a. Export Earnings • $1 billion/ p.a Exports in Drip- Irrigation

  9. Can Israel Increase This Share? • There is no chance of Israel gaining significant export markets in a water sector where it hasno domestic market. Booky Oren, Chairman of Watech, 2011)

  10. Potential For Exports in the Water Saving Sector. • Target Water Exports of $10 billion by 2020 • Assume Half of this is in water saving sector and half of that is achieved by creating a domestic market • Creating a domestic market for water saving could create $2 billion in exports • That’s 10,000 green jobs.

  11. Obstacles • Lack of Trained water engineers • Political Will and Culture The challenge is to engender the political will and the cultural shift necessary to move water saving from being a short term crisis response to a central and permanent role in Israel's water policy

  12. Opportunity Moving water saving and conservation to the center of the water economy help safeguard the country's natural capital, create many thousands of high quality jobs, position Israel to capture billions of dollars in exports and to take a leading role in one of the critical human challenges of the 21st century.

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