TEL AVIV, Israel, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Netafim - the world's largest company providing smart water solutions for agricultural industries - has announced that it has joined the CEO Water Mandate organization. This move comes at a time when the entire world must deal with serious water shortages which affect, among other things, food production and sanitation.
Netafim President and CEO, Ofer Bloch was among the chief executive officers of 19 corporations to call on G8 leaders to actively address the issue of water use and shortages during their upcoming Hokkaido Toyako Summit on 7-9 July in Japan. The business leaders all support the UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate, launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007.
According to Bloch: "Netafim has championed the conservation and saving of water for more than 40 years. We applaud the growing consciousness of international companies and organizations and their joining in the preservation of this precious resource."
Netafim joins giant international corporations such as Coca-Cola, Siemens, Dow Chemicals, PepsiCo, Levy-Strauss, and Nestle.
To read the full CEO letter go to: http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/9.1_news_archives/2008_0...
About the CEO Water Mandate organization
CEO Water Mandate is a joint initiative of United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon, the government of Sweden, and a group of organizations committed to or specializing in confronting the shortage of water and improving its quality. The organization was established in July 2007 as a private-public initiative for the purpose of creating international strategies and solutions that would help relieve the worsening water crisis. CEO Water Mandate has set itself the objective of enlisting companies and organizations throughout the world that would agree to undertake a joint effort for this purpose alongside key international elements. Members of the organization have committed themselves to cooperate whenever possible in sharing proposals together with regional and global plans that already exist today in various countries.
About Netafim
Netafim is the world's largest and leading company in the field of smart water solutions for agriculture. Most of the company's activity focuses today on medium to large irrigation projects, greenhouses, and bio-fuel energy crops. The company's sales in 2007 amounted to about half a billion dollars.
Netafim operates in more than 110 countries via 32 subsidiaries, with 13 factories throughout the world. The company employs some 2,400 workers.
For details: Yaniv Rosenberg, Netafim P.R, +972-50-4488962, yaniv@rcspr.co.il
For details: Yaniv Rosenberg, Netafim P.R, +972-50-4488962, yaniv@rcspr.co.il
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