WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

Community Level Solutions

Farms Supported

Community Projects Completed

Acres Served

Annual Value Created and Saved

Region: Israel
Sector: Water
Status: Active

The Community Water Infrastructure Project helps farming communities in the Western Negev address critical last mile water delivery challenges that individual farms cannot solve alone.

Each intervention is unique and designed in partnership with local communities. The project supports practical solutions to improve agricultural performance, strengthen resilience and create value across entire farming regions. Through a blended finance model combining ReGrow support with community investment, the projects ensured locally appropriate solutions and strong community ownership.

THE MODEL

Project Change Drivers

ReGrow’s model advances projects through connected Field, Innovation, and Policy drivers. The Agricultural Water Infrastructure Project primarily engaged the Field and Policy drivers.

At the field level, communities addressed critical water infrastructure constraints that were affecting farm productivity, reliability, and long-term viability.

At the policy level, the project demonstrated that certain agricultural challenges are more effectively addressed through shared community infrastructure. Its success inspired a new government tender to address the challenge in collaboration with philanthropy, ensuring the approach ReGrow piloted can now be scaled.

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IMPACT STORIES

Cuts to our water supply do not just affect us, they affect the whole country. This project allows us to work with the confidence that we will have a reliable water supply.

Hila Fenlon, Chairwoman and Greenhouse Farmer, Moshav Netiv Ha’Asara

After October 7th, the farmers didn’t leave for a moment, they were here trying to keep things going. We put new water infrastructure in 2300 dunam of land, before this, that land was barely useable and it’s uses were so limited…we mainly grew potatoes there [which don’t require as much water]…the new pipes allow the farmers to grow a much larger variety of fruit and vegetables.

Doron Shifrin, Mazkir, Ein HaBesor

The plants in the greenhouses require watering every day or even twice a day..before the new system, there could be water cuts for half a day or even a whole day. Not anymore. All the greenhouses are now working. Every day, between 15-20 trucks full of vegetables leave the moshav.

Aharon Gamari, Moshav Yeted

In the early morning, all the farmers are working and watering and using lots of water at once. It used to be a regular occurrence that there wasn’t enough water for everyone in the mornings. Now the new system immediately recognizes that there’s an issue and starts working so that there’s enough for everyone, without them even knowing that there was a problem. The mornings are calm again.

Eyal Giller, Moshav Water Engineer and Farmer, Netiv HaAsara