NEGEV DESERT, Israel — A group of Utah Mormon Republican ... They were suspended from the ceiling, being fed by drip irrigation systems. The experiment was testing different plant varieties ...

Today, the farmers have access to advanced irrigation systems. To improve efficiency ... Aaron Fait, an associate professor at Ben-Gurion University, does research in Israel’s Negev desert on ...

The European Union long banned or restricted vineyard irrigation ... Negev also might be well-suited for the future, even outside Israel. It stands to reason that grapes thriving in the desert ...

By Isabel Kershner SDE BOKER, Israel — Say ... and little annual rainfall, the desert vines depend on drip irrigation, an innovation developed by another Negev collective in the 1960s that ...

BE'ER SHEVA, ISRAEL -- As you drive through Israel's Negev desert, you would be forgiven ... seawater stripped of its salt -- in drip irrigation systems, which help reduce water waste.

Set deep in the heart of the Negev desert in southern Israel ... through advances such as drip irrigation technology, which is now used globally since Israel pioneered it in the 1960s.

The Negev Desert constitutes 60% of Israel’s land ... Instead of all the rainwater draining into one place, these irrigation stations rerouted the water into many small channels.

Contrary to what anti-Israel figures try to ... achievements was transforming the Negev desert (which covers half our territory) through innovative irrigation systems, including drip irrigation ...