A growing number of Israeli firms are offering cutting-edge expertise in the filed of water technology, CantonRep.com reported. Israel’s Trade Ministry hopes the country can export $2.5 billion in water technology in 2011, a jump from $1.4 billion last year and $750 million two years earlier. Israel’s interest in water technology goes back decades and it is now considered one of the leaders in the field. Israel recently hosted its fifth annual Water Technologies, Renewable Energy and Environmental Control convention, where hundreds of firms displayed their innovations.

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