Image: Mar Saba Monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the Judean Desert. Mar Saba, founded approximately 1,500 years ago, is considered the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the world. The monastery was visited by Pope Paul VI in 1964, when the Vatican returned the remains of its founder, Saint Sabbas. Today, monks and pilgrims visiting the monastery are already benefiting from the significant reduction in odors and sewage pollution that affected the area for decades. Photo source: Rafi Glick, photographed during a tour of the area last week.

From Sewage to Energy: The Restoration of the Kidron Valley Brings Life Back to the Desert.

About eight years ago, a capstone project I supervised at the Faculty of Management at Ben-Gurion University won first prize in the university’s “Green Campus” competition.

The project, titled “Ecological Wastewater Treatment – How to Turn Sewage from a Nuisance into a Resource,”........

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