Tel Aviv — Tanzania will be represented at the world water technologies exhibition slated for Tel Aviv later this year.

The fifth International Water Technologies and Environment Control Exhibition (WATEC), to take place in November, is aimed at preventing water deficit in Tanzania and the world.

It is one of the leading world platforms to showcase Israel's water and environmental technologies which in 2007 attracted more than 19,000 visitors from 81 countries.

According to the Israel, NEWTech Project manager Gilad Peled, Tanzania's Water and Irrigation minister Prof Mark Mwandosya, will present the country's experiences on water and irrigation as a case study.

Topics such as water efficiency solutions, desalination, efficient irrigation, water purification and alternative energy solutions, will be discussed.

The two-day conference, which traditionally attracts ministers, decision-makers and experts in water and environment, will also attend the event and tour IDE Technologies, the world's biggest water desalination plant.

WATEC chairman Booky Oren, told reporters during the preliminary tour of Tel Aviv on Thursday, that it is important for the world to be innovative in creating alternatives as pressure increases on resources like fresh water .

He said: "As the world's population continues to grow at a rapid rate, increased stress on the environment and gradual depletion of natural resources, necessitate the need for new solutions."

Currently, it is estimated that there will be a 35 per cent decrease of consumable water during the next 15 years, which sets the stage for the development of water technologies.

An obvious example is the intense competition for water and energy resources, and the need to sustain access to those resources.

Providing water and energy has become a pressing social, economic and political imperative.

In Tanzania, the Government has in the past blamed poor water services in urban areas to dilapidated infrastructure, unpaid bills and unprecedented rural-urban migration.

Safe water made available to urban and rural dwellers reached 100.2 million cubic metres, up from 99.99 million cubic metres in 2006, according to minister Mwandosya.