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MAY 22, 2020 Meet the Israeli Startup Making Water Drinkable Again Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Norwich, CT 06360 Permit #329 Serving The Jewish Communities of Eastern Connecticut & Western R.I. CHANGE SERVICE RETURN TO: 28 Channing St., New London, CT 06320 REQUESTED VOL. XLVI NO. 10 PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY MAY 22 2020/28 IYAR 5780 NEXT DEADLINE MAY 29, 2020 16 PAGES HOW TO REACH US - PHONE 860-442-8062 • FAX 860-540-1475 • EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 One year on the job! By Carin Savel, JFEC Executive Director One year ago, on May 15, 2019, I began my service to JFEC as the new Executive Director and the first female leader in decades. As I drove from Raleigh to New London last May, I mused about Pledge 2 my new community, new hometown, and new Federation, but I never thought I’d be living in a new reality. Protect Amidst the current turmoil, fear, and uncertainty, however, I am grateful. 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But when it comes to toxic algal blooms, even satellites orbiting Earth can’t miss it. BlueGreen’s CEO and co-founder Eyalspecifically Harel. “It’s copper,” excellent material,explains as cyanobacterial blooms. These occur when a water ecosystem it works great.” becomesBlue-green unhinged algal as blooms a result are of toxicinternal bacteria or external scientifically contamination. known “But it’s a heavy metal that The photosynthesizing algae proliferate and take over all the resources sticks around – it mounts up in the lakes or reservoirs and ruin their ecosystem, sometimes even and in the end it’s a chemical,” turning them into dead aquatic zones. he says. “In the past 25 years a This isn’t bad news only for the body of water and its plant and animal new algicide based on hydrogen inhabitants, but also for the people who live around it and rely on it peroxide was introduced. It also for their drinking does a great job, water, livelihood but it’s hydrogen and recreation. peroxide. The way Drinking the it’s being used water becomes today requires a out of the very, very great question, as deal of it.” Choir practice – corona style does eating the Using copious amounts of these A local Petach Tikvah choir practicing in a local park. there. Consuming substances is They are seen keeping the mandatory distance from vegetablesfish that livedthat not great for the each other due to the government health requirements. were grown using environment © Ashernet the water is also and not always not advisable, and neither is bathing treating the algal Candle Lighting for Eastern CT area in it – it literally blooms.efficient Thisin stinks. Algal blooms take over all the resources in bodies of waters is because the Friday, May 22 • 7:49 pm Algal blooms and can render them dead aquatic zones. A red algal bloom in bloom resides Friday, May 29 • 7:55 pm take over all the Sarsota, Florida, summer 2018. Photo by Shutterstock.com on the surface of resources in the water and is Friday, June 5 • 8:00 pm bodies of waters moved around by Friday, June 12 • 8:04 pm and can render them dead aquatic zones. A red algal bloom in Sarsota, the currents, while the chemicals Florida, summer 2018. Photo by Shutterstock.com used to treat it are heavy and sink This is where Israeli startup BlueGreen Water Technologies steps to the bottom, meaning that large in. Founded in 2014, the company started as one of the cofounders’ amounts of the algicides go to doctoral dissertation on cyanobacteria. It turns existing forms of algal waste. National Award Winner of the Council of Jewish of Jewish Federations as the Outstanding use solution. WATER CONT. ON PG 3 Small Cities Jewish newspaper. 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