A delegation of 8 Israeli water technology companies that were carefully selected by Brazilian water company SABESP, traveled to Sao Paulo to present groundbreaking Israeli innovative solutions to local water issues. SABESP, which provides water and sewage treatment to the State of Sao Paulo, hopes to use the Israeli technology to tackle the increasingly challenging task of providing the growing urban population of Brazil’s business capital Sao Paulo with potable water.

Mekorot National Water Company, Israel’s main water company, also signed cooperation agreements with SABESP and CAESB.

SABESP, with about 30 million customers, is Latin America’s largest, and the world’s fifth largest water company. CAESB provides water and sewage treatment to the Federal District, including Brazil's political capital, Brasilia.

Mekorot will work with SABESP and CAESB on treating contaminated water sources, desalination, water quality, hydrology, drilling, sewage treatment, wastewater reclamation, reduction of water depreciation, and the use of advanced water technologies.

Israeli technologies will get further exposure at “WATEC 2009”, the Water Technologies & Environmental Control exhibition to be held in Tel Aviv in November, which will serve as a unique forum for displaying technological innovations to water industry decision-makers worldwide.