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Abigail Klein Leichman

Guatemala Seeks To Tap Israeli Expertise In Water Knowledge, Technology

A KKL-JNF delegation is seen visiting Israel Square in Guatemala City in March 2022. The Israeli team had come to the Central American country to discuss helping with the water crisis and ways to deal with climate change. (Courtesy of KKL-JNF)

Israel’s Keren Kayemeth-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), billed as the world’s oldest “green” organization, may put its expertise to use in lands where contaminated water is a pressing present-day problem and is called “agua contaminada.”

A delegation from Jerusalem-based KKL-JNF, headed by CEO Amnon Ben Ami, flew to Guatemala in late March to discuss with President Alejandro Giammattei and Foreign Minister Mario Bukaro the possibility of using the firm’s expertise and technology to deal with Guatemala’s “Dry Corridor” and ongoing water crisis.

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