FIGARO DEMAIN – A start-up had the idea of recycling a medical device, “artificial kidneys”, to filter water.
Special Envoy to the Golan Heights (Israel)
To the east, one can easily distinguish the UN checkpoint located on the Syrian side. At sunset, Lake Tiberias. On the Golan Heights, not far from the Syrian border, a very strange ballet is woven every day. The approximately 2,560 dialysis filters that make up the industrial facility are operating at full capacity to treat wastewater from the villagers and surrounding cows.
Yes, you read that right: dialysis filters, which are usually used to detoxify the blood of patients whose kidneys are no longer able to perform this function. It was in the brain of Professor Yoram Liass of Tel Aviv University that the idea of using this “artificial kidney” medical device to filter water germinated. Mino Negrin, already invested in the sector, then decided in 2011 to buy the patent from him and to found the company NUFiltration to, after four years of research and development, treat water with this process…
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