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As Utah tries to help the Great Salt Lake, Utah leaders met with Israeli government officials, tech startups, agriculture producers and research institutions.

Israel’s innovations in water-conserving technologies and water augmentation have intrigued Joel Ferry, who led a delegation from Utah to the desert nation 7,000 miles away in March.

Utah Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Joel Ferry reads an Israeli nursery rhyme to the men and women who oversee Utah's water systems as they ride in a van headed to government offices in Jerusalem.

Founded in 1948 as a Jewish state, Israel had to find its own water. The country treats water as public property controlled by the state — there are no private water rights.

Rio Grande water managers and stakeholders worry as they plan for the next five decades of water use in New Mexico — a period that will witness tough choices as a dire and historic drought continues and the river is unable to give everyone what they want or need.